Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, August 22nd, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, we talked

recently about how Nvidia maybe wasn't home free in China just yet, and lo and behold,

they're stopping H20 chip production over Chinese concerns. Did Elon Musk talk to Mark Zuckerberg

about buying Open AI together?

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Nvidia has apparently told suppliers like Amcor and Samsung to halt H20 chip

production after China urged local tech firms to avoid using H20 chips over alleged security concerns.

We spoke about this a few weeks ago. China worried about chip tracking and chip back doors at the

time, and I guess that has come to ahead.

Quote, the production halt signals that despite the Trump administration's decision to allow

NVIDIA to resume selling the chips after a months-long ban, the chip giant's hopes of maintaining

its foothold in the Chinese market remain in limbo now because of the Chinese government's

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