The False Binary: Jensen Huang, the Chip Wars, and the Lie of All or Nothing
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There is a particular species of question that politicians love and engineers hate. It goes like this: Should we sell AI chips to China, yes or no? And the person asking it fully expects one of those two words in return, because the person asking it has already decided which word they want to hear. The question is not a question. It is a sorting hat.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia and arguably the single most consequential figure in the global AI supply chain, sat down this week with Dwarkesh Patel for a podcast that ran nearly two hours. Most of the conversation covered familiar Nvidia territory: supply chain choreography, TPU competition, why Nvidia does not become a hyperscaler. Good stuff. Solid corporate reasoning from a man who has turned electron-to-token conversion into a hundred-billion-dollar quarterly business.
But then they got to China. And things got interesting.
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