By Reuters
Publication Date: 2025-12-09 12:50:00
BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States would allow Nvidia’s H200 processors to be exported to China, though it remains unclear whether Beijing will give the green light to Chinese companies to purchase them.
China now has a number of AI chipmakers, as the country looks to wean itself off reliance on foreign technology. Here is how Chinese rivals compare with Nvidia’s H200.
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DO CHINESE CHIPS MATCH THE H200’S POWER?
No. The most advanced chip from Chinese suppliers is Huawei’s Ascend 910C, which lags significantly behind the H200 in computing power and memory bandwidth, according to a recent report from the Institute for Progress.
The 910C delivers total processing performance (TPP) of 12,032, compared with the H200’s 15,840, and has memory bandwidth of 3.2 terabytes per second versus the H200’s 4.8 TB/s.
ARE THERE ANY CHINESE CHIPS THAT CAN MATCH NVIDIA’s H20?
Chinese chips can match Nvidia’s H20, a downgraded processor Nvidia designed for the Chinese market but stopped shipping earlier this year after Washington banned it.
Huawei’s 910B delivers total processing performance of 5,120, surpassing the H20’s 2,368, according to a July Bernstein report. Cambricon’s Siyuan 590, with TPP of 4,493, also outperforms the H20.
