Nvidia Plots China Comeback With New AI Chip

Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an AI chip specially tailored for Chinese customers by the end of the year, according to two employees, in what would represent a new route to China for the company.

Several Chinese customers have already placed orders for the chip, which is a variant of Nvidia’s language processing unit. The LPU is a new chip developed by Nvidia with technologies licensed from Groq that works alongside Nvidia’s graphics processing units to speed up an AI chatbot’s response times.