Chinese firms still want Nvidia chips despite government pressure not to buy, sources say

Alibaba, ByteDance and other Chinese tech firms remain keen on Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips despite regulators in Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases, four people with knowledge of procurement discussions said.

They want reassurance that their orders of Nvidia’s H20 model, which the U.S. firm in July regained permission to sell in China, are being processed, and are closely monitoring Nvidia’s plans for a more powerful chip, tentatively named the B30A and which is based on its Blackwell architecture, two of the people…