Nvidia Denies Report It Plans China-Specific LPU AI Chip Rollout by Year-End

Nvidia on August 21 flatly denied a report by The Information that it planned to begin small-batch shipments by year-end of a language processing unit (LPU) tailored for Chinese customers, built on LPU technology licensed from startup Groq. The Information, citing two Nvidia employees, had reported the chip would comply with US export controls, feature modified software, and that several Chinese customers had already placed orders. An Nvidia spokesman told Tom's Hardware and other outlets: 'The reporting in The Information on Nvidia's LPU is incorrect. We have no LPU sales in the China market today, and no China-specific LPU product in our road map.' The dispute surfaces amid continued flux in Nvidia's China posture: the US approved H200 sales to select Chinese firms including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance in May 2026, even as CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged Nvidia has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei.