Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has expressed disappointment over reports that Beijing has moved to restrict Chinese tech giants from purchasing the company’s high-performance chips.
According to a Financial Times report on Wednesday, China’s internet regulator instructed major firms such as Alibaba and ByteDance to halt orders and testing of Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D chips—processors specially tailored for the Chinese market.
The reported directive comes just days after Chinese regulators ruled that Nvidia had violated antitrust laws, intensifying scrutiny on the California-based chipmaker.
Speaking at a press event in London, Huang acknowledged the growing strain between the United States and China over technology access.
“We can only be in service of a market if a country wants us to be,” he said. “I’m disappointed with what I see, but they have larger agendas to work out between China and the United States. And I’m patient about it. We’ll continue to be supportive of the Chinese government and Chinese companies as they wish.”
Nvidia, which has become the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization on the back of its dominance in AI chipmaking, counts China as one of its key markets.
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But restrictions from both Washington and Beijing have increasingly limited its operations in the country.
Last month, U.S. officials confirmed that Nvidia must remit 15 percent of revenue earned from certain AI chip sales in China to the U.S. government, part of Washington’s wider effort to curb Beijing’s access to advanced technology.
Beijing, for its part, has raised national security concerns over Nvidia products and is encouraging Chinese firms to pivot to domestic alternatives.
Analysts believe that the latest measures are aimed at accelerating homegrown semiconductor development, with companies such as Huawei expected to play a larger role.
The unfolding situation underscores how Nvidia remains at the center of escalating tech rivalry between the two superpowers.