{"id":1021784,"date":"2026-07-17T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021784"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:29:37","slug":"jensen-huang-turns-tokyo-izakaya-into-ai-power-summit-with-japans-chip-industry-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/jensen-huang-turns-tokyo-izakaya-into-ai-power-summit-with-japans-chip-industry-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Jensen Huang turns Tokyo izakaya into AI power summit with Japan&#8217;s chip industry leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, Jensen Huang was in Tokyo\u2019s central Kanda district courting the little-known Japanese suppliers that underpin the AI supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>The Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer swept into a cozy izakaya in the area popular for after-work drinks, turning a narrow lane known for grilled pork skewers and beer crates into a theater for the AI boom. Outside, a crowd pressed in with smartphones raised, hoping for a glimpse of the man they refer to as kawajan-san \u2014 Mr. Leather Jacket \u2014 on social media and whose chips have become central to the global AI race.<\/p>\n<p>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, Jensen Huang was in Tokyo\u2019s central Kanda district courting the little-known Japanese suppliers that underpin the AI supply chain. The Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer swept into a cozy izakaya in the area popular for after-work drinks, turning a narrow lane known for grilled pork skewers and beer crates into a theater for the AI boom. Outside, a crowd pressed in with smartphones raised, hoping for a glimpse of the man they refer to as kawajan-san \u2014 Mr. Leather Jacket \u2014 on social media and whose chips have become central to the global AI race. ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021788,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021784\/revisions\/1021788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}