For Jen-Hsun Huang, the new chip B30A specially supplied by Nvidia for China has once again been banned from sale by the US government. According to US media reports,The White House has informed other federal agencies that Nvidia will not be allowed to sell its latest miniaturized artificial intelligence (AI) chip B30A to China.
According to reports, Nvidia has provided samples of the B30A chip to several of its Chinese customers.
If B30A chips are efficiently arranged in large clusters, they can be used to train large language models, which is what many Chinese companies need.
Nvidia employees said the company is working to modify the B30A design in the hope that the U.S. government will reconsider its stance.
A spokesman for Nvidia said the company "has zero share of China's highly competitive data center computing market and therefore does not include it in its guidance."
Summarizing previously exposed information, the price of B30A may be about twice the current price of H20 (approximately between 10,000 and 12,000 US dollars), that is, it may be 20,000 to 24,000 US dollars (approximately 171,000 yuan).
In addition, the B30A is likely to be modified based on the Blackwell B300A with the same single-chip design. According to the data, B300A is based on TSMC’s 4nm process, CoWoS-L advanced packaging, has 144GB HBM3E, and has a power consumption of 600W.
Previous reports stated that the performance of the B30A may be 80% of the base model Blackwell GPU.
