Jensen is Taiwanese. Nvidia's chips are made in Taiwan, as are all the most advanced chips in the world -- including the chips in Apple and AMD products -- by TSMC. China wants to re-absorb Taiwan into itself, partially because they cannot match TSMC's geometries and they desperately need those geometries.

Speculation here, but it's conceivable that China gave Jensen an ultimatum: Give us your chips and we'll delay invading your homeland for a little while longer. Of course this would have been implied since China never says anything so direct.

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qurren 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Highly unlikely that China would direct a military threat at a tech CEO.

The more sane explanation is that Jensen Huang just wanted to capture more revenue.

	▲	retwakm4 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unlikely, but not implausible, and should have been reported directly to the FBI / CIA if that was ever implied. But, the whole affair business means he probably wouldn't have handled hearing something like that responsibly either, which is part of the problem. Abuse of power in the case of the second affair to the extent it could've easily turned into a rape scandal and is a big reason why it is a big HR no-no, and in the first case, the affair not being public is exactly the kind of thing a honeypot wants in order to keep you quiet about the kinds of threats that may end up implied. Either way, the dude is going to be getting investigated and will not be able to effectively lead NVIDIA in the course of what's coming.