After months of regulatory hurdles and revenue fallout, Nvidia is poised to initiate a bold comeback in China with its upcoming RTX 6000D—a strategically modified Blackwell-based GPU designed to satisfy current export controls and restore lost market share. According to DigiTimes, the company plans to begin shipping the card in Q3 of 2025, with an ambitious target of 1-2 million units by year-end, aiming to recoup over $10 billion in faltering revenue.
This news stems from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s third visit to China in 2025 that he made yesterday, a highly symbolic gesture amidst the ever-growing U.S. scrutiny. He reportedly used the visit to personally present the RTX 6000D and other compliant AI solutions to key Chinese partners, signaling both goodwill and urgency. The Trump administration recently orchestrated a deal with China, trading chip design exports for rare earth materials, so there’s potential for de-escalation, but bleeding-edge semiconductors are a hard line to cross.
As such, the newest addition to the China-only lineup of GPUs is the RTX 6000D, different from the RTX PRO 6000D that’s also in the works. It’s built on TSMC’s 4nm process node, features GDDR7 graphics memory with around 1,100 GB/s bidirectional bandwidth, and boasts a design aimed at approaching HBM-class performance—all while staying within current U.S. export regulations. However, concerns still linger around GDDR7 supply constraints, which could limit production in the second half of 2025 when the card is supposed to launch, claimed DigiTimes.
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Nvidia’s move is a direct response to the major financial drag it’s faced since President Trump took office. In the fiscal year 2025, China (including Hong Kong) generated over $17 billion in revenue, around 13% of the company’s total revenue. But export bans on chips like the H20, A800/H800, and high-end gaming cards like RTX 4090, and even 5090D have driven China’s revenue share down to less than 5%, costing NVIDIA an estimated $4.5 billion in impairments and $2.5 billion in lost revenue recognition. That being said, just hours ago, Nvidia was given approval to sell its H20 GPUs in China again, so ground is already being recovered as we speak.