As a result, Nvidia's total revenue soared, climbing in the double and triple digits quarter after quarter to reach record levels. And China was becoming a smaller and smaller part of that picture. A geographic breakdown shows Nvidia's China revenue shrank to just 16% of total sales in the fiscal 2024 year from 26% just two years earlier.

AI-diffusion” rules could limit the U.S. chip company’s sales even to friendly countries—and give more opportunity to foreign rivals.

Nvidia is caught in the middle of an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Nvidia on Tuesday said it will take a $5.5 billion financial hit after Washington placed fresh restrictions on the export of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China,