Nvidia steps up hiring in China to focus on AI-driven cars, Bloomberg News reports

(Reuters) -Nvidia has added about 200 individuals in China this yr to boost its analysis capabilities and give attention to new autonomous driving applied sciences, Bloomberg Information reported on Wednesday.

Over the previous couple of years, it has expanded within the nation to now have near 600 individuals in Beijing, and it just lately opened a brand new workplace within the Zhongguancun tech hub, the report mentioned, citing individuals conversant in the matter.

The unreal intelligence chipmaker employed about 29,600 individuals in 36 international locations on the finish of fiscal yr 2024, in response to a submitting revealed by Nvidia in February.

Nvidia declined to touch upon the Bloomberg report.

The corporate is below investigation in China over suspected violations of the nation’s anti-monopoly regulation, a probe broadly seen as a retaliatory shot towards Washington’s newest curbs on the Chinese language chip sector.

China accounted for round 17% of Nvidia’s income within the yr to the top of January, sliding from 26% two years earlier.

(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan and Janane Venkatraman)