How Nvidia’s chips became central to the U.S.-China trade war
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed Friday that the company is working with the Trump administration on a new computer chip designed for sale to China, it marked the latest chapter in a long-running debate over how the U.S. should compete with China’s technological ambitions.
The reasoning has sometimes changed – with U.S. officials citing national security, human rights or purely economic competition – but the tool has been the same: export controls, or the threat of them.
