In the midst of a pretty strained trade relationship with China, US President Donald Trump recently took a jet full of tech leaders to the country to negotiate deals. The first of which appears to be the approval of sales of Nvidia's second most powerful AI GPU, the H200, to the region. The caveat is that it's just 10 firms getting them for now.
After initial reports suggested Trump forgot to invite the Nvidia head, Trump confirmed yesterday that Jensen Huang was, in fact, sat on Air Force One, alongside the likes of Elon Musk and representatives from Qualcomm and Micron. His goal was to "open up China so that these brilliant people can work their magic."
As reported by Reuters, Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, JDcom, Lenovo, and Foxconn are said to be among the companies allowed to purchase the chips. Lenovo is the only company to have confirmed as such to Reuters directly. Sourc...
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