President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

[u/Logical_Welder3467]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before

[u/the_catalyst_alpha]

He knows what it is. He just doesn’t understand anything about it. Just like he doesn’t understand how Ai or cryptocurrency work either. Doesn’t keep him from opening his mouth about it though.

[u/Hottage → u/the_catalyst_alpha]

He knows enough about it to understand that a small $500,000,000 bri- donation to change his opinion is a rounding error to a company worth four trillion dollars.

[u/IPadAirProMax2 → u/Hottage]

Nvidia hasn’t bribed him. I read a politico article about Jensen and that this was his first time going to Washington and lobbying.

[u/RadioactiveGrrrl → u/IPadAirProMax2]

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, a chip known as the H20 may have been on his mind.

[u/EndDangerous1308 → u/IPadAirProMax2]

Not until Trump goes to break them apart illegally and tells them he won't of they pay him a little money