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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Trump Dips into NVIDIA’s Chips

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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.

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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Ethan Oberman, Patrick Fort, and Elena Schwartz.



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1:11.2

If you don't spend a lot of time thinking about tech CEOs, you might not be too familiar with Jensen Wong, who runs NVIDIA.

1:14.7

Invidia makes chips, graphics, processing units, or GPUs.

1:20.3

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

1:30.1

Washington, D.C., because he made this relatively niche product. That's Amrith Ram Kumar, who

1:36.2

covers tech policy for the Wall Street Journal. With the rise of artificial intelligence,

1:41.2

it turns out these GPUs and the products and software and video makes are actually vital. So the company has just gotten gangbusters, their market

1:48.5

values above $4 trillion now. And the chips they make are really these strategic commodities.

1:54.5

And Wong, who's got a shock of gray hair and always wears a black leather jacket,

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