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Chips · May 05, 2026, 12:01 PM · 1 source

NVIDIA CEO: China barred from Blackwell, Rubin GPUs; US must have 'first, most, best'

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated explicitly that China should not receive Blackwell or Rubin AI GPUs, emphasizing that the US must maintain 'the first, the most, and the best' in AI hardware availability. The remarks reinforce NVIDIA's alignment with US export controls and signal intentional supply-chain fragmentation.

For enterprise CIOs, this confirms that next-gen NVIDIA accelerators (Blackwell production units, Rubin roadmap) will remain US/allied-only in the near term, likely driving premium pricing and spot-market volatility in restricted geographies.

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