PREVIEW: GUEST NAME: Chris Riegel SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Chris Riegel regarding Xi Jinping's decision to ban Chinese companies from purchasing Nvidia chips. Riegel explains this action will severely impede China's global competitiveness in ch
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
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GUEST NAME: Chris Riegel
SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Chris Riegel regarding Xi Jinping's decision to ban Chinese companies from purchasing Nvidia chips. Riegel explains this action will severely impede China's global competitiveness in chip manufacturing and AI. Due to US sanctions and this decision, China will struggle to access essential tools, expertise, and supply chains, causing their AI models and overall chip industry to fall further behind US growth.
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| 0:21.3 | This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Chris Regal, CEO of Scholar.com, |
| 0:27.8 | about the decision by Xi Jinping to ban the purchase of Nvidia chips by Chinese companies. |
| 0:36.7 | What does it mean? |
| 0:38.3 | How can it possibly help? |
| 0:41.0 | Chris answers that and the question, |
| 0:44.4 | is the Chinese Communist Party ready to be number two permanently? |
| 0:48.5 | Or is it ignorant of the facts? |
| 0:50.7 | Chris says both, here he explains. |
| 0:54.9 | Chris Wigle tonight about China's odd decision to pull up the drawbridge and turn around and walk away from the future. |
| 1:06.5 | Much more of this tonight. |
| 1:10.0 | John, I think it's both. |
| 1:12.1 | Principally, you are dealing with an environment that you cannot be competitive on a global scale in chip manufacturing unless you have open access to the best tools, the best people, the best supply chains. |
| 1:25.6 | China is closed off from that supply chain due to U.S. sanctions, so they will not |
| 1:31.0 | be able to compete at the highest levels. The Chinese are very good at Tier 2, Tier 3 chips, |
| 1:37.0 | and Huawei and others continue to chase NVIDIA, but they're not going to catch up in that race, |
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