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Who are the winners and losers from the Jensen Huang affair

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Who are the winners and losers from the Jensen Huang affair
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The clearest winners are China hawks demanding additional export controls. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Jensen Huang embracing Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang after delivering his keynote speech at COMPUTEX 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan.

LONDON – Chips do not stop shipping because a chief executive leaves, so Nvidia will continue to be a key global player in its industrial sector. Still, what Jensen Huang took with him when he left Nvidia was his unique business acumen and priceless political connections. And both are irreplaceable.

He was the only CEO who, in a spate of a few days, could sit in the Oval Office, board Air Force One at an Alaskan refuelling stop on the way to a US presidential summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and then brief people in fluent Mandarin from a Beijing hotel ballroom.

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