Nvidia CEO Makes First China Tour in Years as US Curbs Roil AI 随着美国限制影响人工智能，英伟达首席执行官多年来首次访问中国

He visited Nvidia’s offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing earlier this month, according to a person familiar with the matter. Images and video of the 60-year-old donning colorful traditional garb and dancing with staff emerged online over the weekend. It wasn’t clear if he’d held formal meetings with other executives or officials, said the person, who asked not to be named discussing a private visit.

Huang embarked on his tour — first reported by state newspapers off Chinese social media posts — as Nvidia’s artificial intelligence accelerators become pivotal in a tech race between Washington and Beijing. Huang has warned that an escalation in sanctions designed to cut off the flow of AI training chips could drive Chinese firms to develop their own alternatives. That could harm American tech leaders in the long run, he has said. The Nvidia co-founder name-checked Huawei Technologies Co. — which in 2023 alarmed Washington by including an advanced made-in-China processor in a smartphone — as a potential rival.

An Nvidia representative confirmed Huang had celebrated the upcoming Lunar New Year with staff, without elaborating.

Nvidia, which more than tripled its market value in 2023 thanks largely to its pivotal role in AI development, is up another 20% this year as investors bet on its sector leadership. It’s designed versions of its semiconductors for China that it says are compliant with successive rounds of US sanctions, as Washington watches closely.

Among the social media posts, one person describing himself as an Nvidia staffer shared an image of Huang handing over a raffled Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card. The CEO has since moved on to Taiwan, according to local newspaper EDN, for his fourth visit to the island in less than a year.

据一位了解情况的人士透露，本月早些时候他访问了英伟达在深圳、上海和北京的办公室。周末时，60岁的他穿着色彩鲜艳的传统服装与员工跳舞的图片和视频在网上流传。据这位不愿透露姓名的人士表示，尚不清楚他是否与其他高管或官员进行了正式会面。

在中国官方报纸和社交媒体帖子首次报道黄仁勋的行程之后，他开始了这次旅行——英伟达的人工智能加速器在华盛顿和北京的技术竞赛中变得至关重要。黄仁勋曾警告说，旨在切断人工智能训练芯片流动的制裁升级可能会促使中国公司开发自己的替代产品。他表示，这可能会对美国技术领导者造成长期伤害。英伟达联合创始人提到了华为技术有限公司——2023年，华为在一款智能手机中使用了中国制造的先进处理器，引起了华盛顿的警觉——作为潜在对手。

一位英伟达代表证实，黄仁勋确实与员工一起庆祝了即将到来的农历新年，但没有进一步详述。

英伟达公司由于在人工智能开发中的关键作用，2023年市值增长了两倍多，今年又增长了20%，投资者对其行业领导地位持乐观态度。为了符合美国连续一轮轮的制裁，它为中国设计了符合规定的半导体版本，而华盛顿正在密切关注。

在社交媒体帖子中，一位自称为英伟达员工的人分享了黄仁勋赠送英伟达GeForce RTX 4080图形卡的图片。据当地报纸EDN报道，这位首席执行官此后已前往台湾，这是他在不到一年的时间里第四次访问该岛。