TBD | Trump Dips into NVIDIA’s Chips

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Jensen Huang, cofounder of NVIDIA, finds himself president of a $4 trillion company, at the forefront of A.I. technology, and, consequently, something of an international diplomat, as he charms President Trump and negotiates to sell his powerful chips to China. Guest: Amrith Ramkumar, reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Washington covering tech and crypto policy. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Ethan Oberman, Patrick Fort, and Elena Schwartz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.2	If you don't spend a lot of time thinking about tech CEOs, you might not be too familiar
1:11.3	with Jensen Wong, who runs Nvidia.
1:14.8	Invidia makes chips, graphics, processing units, or GPUs.
1:20.4	And for a long time, this was basically the realm of video game nerds.
1:24.6	So Jensen Huang was an engineer who basically did not have anything to do in
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