China, Nvidia and Blackwell
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urges the US to stay engaged with China in the global AI race, warning that isolation could hurt innovation and long-term leadership.
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Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia plans to supply hundreds of thousands of its graphics processing units for projects with South Korean businesses and the government to
Nvidia sees $500B in GPU sales by 2026, excluding China. Analysts forecast higher growth and raised price targets.
At the company’s annual developers confab, Huang mentioned several times that half of the world’s AI researchers come from China.
During a gathering of world leaders at the APEC Summit in South Korea, Nvidia announced multiple separate deals across the public and private sectors, including with four of the country's largest companies — Samsung ( 005930.KS ), SK Group, Hyundai ( 005380.KS ), and NAVER Cloud.
Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, have agreed to a one-year pause on the punitive Trump-instated tariffs that are at the heart of the ongoing trade war between the two superpowers. Among the issues discussed when the two leaders met face-to-face in the South Korean city of Busan were China’s chokehold on rare earth metals and the export restrictions on NVIDIA’s AI chips.
The president signaled he would discuss the sale of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips in a summit on Thursday, a move U.S. officials warned would be a “massive” national security mistake.