"He Wants This To Go Fast": Nvidia's Top Lawyer Kept Name-Dropping Trump To Strong-Arm Regulators, According To Report

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"He Wants This To Go Fast": Nvidia's Top Lawyer Kept Name-Dropping Trump To Strong-Arm Regulators, According To Report Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter told more than a dozen…

Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter told more than a dozen government officials working on terms & conditions for the company's H200 chip exports to China that he was in a meeting with President Trump and Jensen Huang to discuss the issue, Semafor reported Friday.

"He wants this to go fast," Teter said on the January call, according to people with access to a detailed account of it. The line went quiet.

In order to remain compliant, chip sellers would be required to know who their cloud customers were before shipping and to vet anyone buying more than a few thousand chips (recall China's 'technically legal' loophole). Teter called the cloud-customer requirement a deal-killer for Nvidia, and the company pushed to raise the vetting threshold to the tens of thousands of chips, billions of dollars' worth, and to limit end-of-life conditions to chips already under export controls.

According to the report, Teter bandied about DC name-dropping Trump to try and grease gears. In one exchange the outlet viewed, he accused officials drafting export restrictions of misrepresenting Nvidia's products and Trump's policies, and scolded them for not carrying out the president's agenda.

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, meanwhile, said it is routine for agencies to work with individual companies on license conditions, which often change in response to legitimate business concerns, and that the State, Defense, Energy and Commerce departments sign off on the final versions.

Five months before that call, Teter emailed the Commerce Department agents building a smuggling case against Megaspeed, telling them Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler had given Nvidia permission to reach out, as we reported. Megaspeed is the Singapore data center company whose former executive, Alice Huang, is the suspected Chinese spy Jensen Huang has acknowledged a relationship with.

The Justice Department took control of the probe shortly afterward, with some officials there worried that Kessler's…

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