Nvidia H20 (China-spec)
The export-throttled Nvidia chip at the center of US-China policy
The H20 is Nvidia's Hopper chip cut down to satisfy US export rules for China; it was banned in April 2025, then conditionally re-allowed in mid-2025 under a reported 15% revenue-to-US arrangement, only for Beijing to discourage or restrict its purchase over security and self-sufficiency concerns. It is the single most politically charged product in the US-China AI-chip fight and drove Chinese buyers toward Ascend and Cambricon.
2025
Banned, then conditionally re-allowed
Successor
B30A debate
How it fits the stack
Nvidia H20 (China-spec) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Nvidia H20 (China-spec) in the AI stack. Nvidia H20 (China-spec) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 4 entities, 3 relationships
- Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) —uses→ Nvidia H20 (China-spec)
- ByteDance Volcano Engine —uses→ Nvidia H20 (China-spec)
- Nvidia H20 (China-spec) —competes with→ Huawei Ascend (910B/910C)