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<\/p>\nNvidia Corp co-founder Jensen Huang (\u9ec3\u4ec1\u52f3) joined US President Donald Trump on his visit to China as a last-minute addition, thrusting artificial intelligence (AI) and technology into the spotlight before a high-stakes Beijing summit.<\/p>\n
Huang is among several US business leaders, including Apple Inc\u2019s Tim Cook and Tesla Inc\u2019s Elon Musk, on Trump\u2019s first overseas trip since waging war in the Middle East \u2014 a 36-hour pow-wow with Chinese President Xi Jinping (\u7fd2\u8fd1\u5e73) that is expected to encompass the war, tariffs and the self-ruled Taiwan. <\/p>\n
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Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n
The list of attendees until yesterday had not included Huang, whose company makes the chips at the heart of the AI boom and has been pushing for greater leeway in a market he has identified as a US$50 billion opportunity.<\/p>\n
The Nvidia chief executive officer was spotted on the tarmac boarding the presidential plane and Trump later confirmed his attendance in a social media post, saying it was an honor to have Huang and other business leaders as part of the US delegation. Trump will also be joined by Boeing Co\u2019s Kelly Ortberg and Goldman Sachs Group Inc\u2019s David Solomon, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will be asking President Xi, a Leader of extraordinary distinction, to \u2018open up\u2019 China so that these brilliant people can work their magic, and help bring the People\u2019s Republic to an even higher level!\u201d Trump said in the post. \u201cIn fact, I promise, that when we are together, which will be in a matter of hours, I will make that my very first request.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear whether Trump will raise with Xi any concerns that relate specifically to Nvidia, whose shares extended gains to more than 3 percent in after-hours Blue Ocean trading.<\/p>\n
The big-ticket item would be seeking Beijing\u2019s approval for Chinese customers to buy Nvidia\u2019s advanced H200 AI chips. Those products, which are used to train and run models like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, have always required Washington\u2019s permission for export to China due to US concerns that the technology could boost the Asian country\u2019s military.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s team granted H200 licenses several months ago in a major reversal of US policy and huge win for Nvidia\u2019s Huang \u2014 but Beijing remains a holdup. While China\u2019s central government has for years complained about US export controls on advanced technology, Beijing also wants to achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductors and boost domestic champions like Huawei Technologies Co (\u83ef\u70ba). Last year, China rejected imports of less-advanced Nvidia AI chips called H20s.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a long road on H200 sales, which emerged as a possibility after China\u2019s H20 import block. Nvidia secured Trump\u2019s support for H200 exports in December last year and some initial US licenses in early this year. Then in March, Huang said that Nvidia had received Washington\u2019s permission for shipments to \u201cmany customers\u201d in China and was firing up H200 production accordingly. That was also in response to receiving official purchase orders from firms in the Asian country \u2014 an indication that Beijing had approved the sales.<\/p>\n
But those Chinese companies later informed Nvidia that they could not actually fulfill the purchases, according to a person familiar with the matter. Last month, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said that no H200s had been shipped to Chinese firms because the \u201cChinese central government has not let them, as of yet, buy the chips, because they\u2019re trying to keep their investment focused on their own domestic industry.\u201d It\u2019s unclear how much new inventory Nvidia is now sitting on.<\/p>\n
White House spokesman Steven Cheung (\u5f35\u632f\u7199), asked about why Huang was now joining Trump\u2019s trip, said Huang\u2019s schedule changed and \u201cit just happened to work out.\u201d Trump called Huang this morning and asked him to come, and the Nvidia leader flew to Anchorage to meet Air Force One on its planned layover, according to a person familiar with the matter. Cheung said he wasn\u2019t aware of Trump calling Huang before the schedule change.<\/p>\n
\u201cJensen is attending the summit at the invitation of President Trump to support America and the administration\u2019s goals,\u201d Nvidia said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The executives joining Trump are all from companies with significant existing China exposure and represent sectors expected to be part of the trip\u2019s commercial agenda, according to another person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia Corp co-founder Jensen Huang (\u9ec3\u4ec1\u52f3) joined US President Donald Trump on his visit to China as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[574,575,2641,40180,7333,2640],"class_list":{"0":"post-69140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jensen-huang","8":"tag-jensen-huang","9":"tag-nvidia","10":"tag-the-taipei-times","11":"tag-trump-xi","12":"tag-us-china","13":"tag-2640"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116566591121218750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}