This is The Guardian.
Today, the secrets of the richest company in the world.
You've heard of Apple and Microsoft, of course, and of Amazon and OpenAI.
But what about NVIDIA?
It's more valuable than all of them.
The richest company on the planet.
The chipmaker Roars passed $3 trillion in value, leapfrogging Apple.
If you've ever asked ChatGPT a question,
or played on a Nintendo Switch, you've used an NVIDIA product.
They might not be as covetable as a brand new iPhone, or as talked about as Tesla.
But NVIDIA's microchips power the modern world and are crucial to our artificial intelligence-fueled future.
Behind it all for the past 30 years is a relentless Taiwanese-American guy in a leather jacket with a shock of white hair and wire-framed glasses.
We have a superstar in-house.
Please welcome to the stage, Jensen Huang.
A man whose fortune is now at risk because of Donald Trump's tariff regime.
and particularly due to Trump's trade war with China.
This week,
Jensen Huang took the surprising step of offering to pay the US 15% of the money that Nvidia makes by selling AI chips to China,
a deal like nothing else in modern trade history.
A highly unusual deal, maybe even unprecedented.