China’s Cyberspace Administration last month banned companies from purchasing Nvidia’s H20 chips, much to the chagrin of its CEO Jensen Huang. This followed a train wreck of events that unfolded over the summer.
After an arduous lobbying campaign over the summer that included a bilateral meeting with United States President Donald Trump and Huang in early July, Nvidia in August was finally able to secure licenses from the United States to export the throttled-down chips to China, unleashing a lucrative backlog held up by geopolitics.
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