Nvidia is preparing a version of the Grok AI chip that it can sell in the Chinese market, Reuters reported on March 18, citing 2 sources familiar with the matter.

The sources said the chip Nvidia is preparing for China is not a lower-performance version and was not designed separately only for the Chinese market. But it can be modified to work with other systems. The Grok chip aimed at the Chinese market is expected to be launched in May.

Nvidia secured technology licences after signing a $170 contract with AI chip startup Grok at the end of last year. At its annual GTC2026 conference held this week in San Jose, California, it unveiled a new product lineup based on the Grok chip.

Nvidia plans to use the Grok chip for inference. Inference is the area in which an AI system answers questions, writes code and processes user requests. In the products unveiled this time, Nvidia showed an approach that combines its next-generation GPU Vera Rubin chip, which it cannot sell to China, with the Grok chip.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (젠슨 황) said in his GTC conference speech, "An inference inflection point has arrived" and "demand continues to increase."