NVIDIA’s China driven H20 AI chip faces technical hurdles

NVIDIA, the US-based technology giant, has announced that it will delay the launch of its new artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the HGX H20, in China until the first quarter of 2024. The H20 chip, the most powerful of the three China-specific chips NVIDIA developed to comply with the new US export regulations, was expected to hit the market in November this year.

Bypassing the US ban

However, according to two sources who spoke to Reuters, NVIDIA faced some technical challenges with the server manufacturers who were supposed to integrate the H20 chip into their systems. The sources said that…