It is reported that the Chinese special version of Nvidia H20 AI chip has been postponed to the first quarter of next year.

CTOnews.com November 24 news, chip consulting firm SemiAnalysis previously reported that Nvidia has now developed the latest improved version of AI chips for China, including HGX H20, L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe, which is more than 20% faster than H100 in LLM reasoning.

Nvidia has informed Chinese customers that the launch of the HGX H20 AI chip will be postponed to the first quarter of next year, according to Reuters.

Sources said they were told that H20 had been delayed due to problems with integrated chips encountered by server manufacturers. Some of them said they were told it might be released in February or March.

Both sources declined to be named because the information was classified. Nvidia declined to comment.

In addition to the H20, sources said that the L20 chip will not be delayed and will be launched as planned. They cannot share information about the status of the L2.

CTOnews.com previously reported that Semianalysis has released a paid article that Nvidia is about to launch HGX H20, L20 PCle and L2 PCle interface chips, all based on Nvidia H100 improvements. These GPU samples have been officially produced and are expected to be put into mass production next month.