There’s strong demand for AI Blackwell chips: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

There’s strong demand for AI Blackwell chips: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Clarifies that there were no active discussions about selling those to China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stated experiencing ‘strong demand’ for the company’s state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) Blackwell chips. And the semiconductor giant's business was booming.

At an event held by the firm's longtime partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), in Hsinchu, Huang expressed, "Nvidia builds the GPU (graphics processing units), but we also build the CPU (central processing units), the networking, the switches. So, there are a lot of chips associated with Blackwell.”

CC Wei, CEO of TSMC, said Huang had ‘asked for wafers’ but that the number was confidential.

Meanwhile, Huang clarified that there were "no active discussions" about selling the company’s flagship AI Blackwell chips to China.

The US President Donald Trump administration has prevented such sales, declaring they could aid the Chinese military and the country's AI industry.

Recently, South Korea's SK Hynix had stated that it has sold out the chip production for 2026, and spurred by the AI boom, planned to boost investments, expecting an extended chip ‘super cycle’.

Samsung Electronics also apprised of being in close discussions with Nvidia to supply its next-generation high-bandwidth memory chips, HBM4.