Nvidia, Jensen Huang and Trump
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The approvals mark a major reversal after April’s sweeping restrictions, imposed by the Trump administration, barred companies from selling certain advanced semiconductors to China. Those rules left Nvidia facing a $4.5 billion inventory write-down, as it had no alternative buyers for its H20 chips.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he wants to ship chips that are more advanced that the H20 product to China. The U.S. reversed a ban that restricted Nvidia from sending its export control-compliant chip known as the H20 to China.
The U.S. will grant licenses for the H20 chip after it had announced restrictions in April.
1don MSN
Nvidia will resume sales of its H20 AI chips to China after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump in the White House last week in an effort to convince him to remove export controls that had hamstrung the company.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang moved ahead of LVMH’s Bernard Arnault to become the world’s sixth-richest person as shares of the chipmaker rallied to an all-time high Tuesday, after the company said sales of its H20 AI chips would resume “soon” in China,