The Nvidia CEO’s Quest to Sell Chips in China

英伟达CEO进军中国芯片市场的征程

The Journal.

2025-08-19

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After months of quiet behind the scenes’ lobbying in both Washington and Beijing, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has secured a deal to protect tens of billions of dollars in future sales from the heated U.S.-China trade rivalry. WSJ’s Lingling Wei profiles the CEO’s transformation from co-founder to corporate lobbyist. Jessica Mendoza hosts. Further Listening:- How Intel’s CEO Became a Political Liability- The U.S. Wants American-Made Chips. Can Intel Deliver? Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Our colleague Lingling Wei is the chief China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

  • And lately, she's had to learn a lot about tech, specifically semiconductor chips.

  • I'm getting a crash course over chips.

  • Seriously, I'm really fascinated myself.

  • In particular, Lingling has been reporting on one tech CEO.

  • Jensen Huang.

  • Jensen Huang is the CEO of NVIDIA, a California-based chip designer.

  • NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the whole world right now,

  • with a market capitalization of over $4 trillion.

  • NVIDIA chips power some of the biggest AI models in the world.

  • And as the company has become more important in the race for artificial intelligence,

  • It's also found itself in the middle of a tense trade battle between the U.S. and China.

  • Lingling says that's meant a new role for the tech company's CEO.

  • Huang, for many years, he had largely avoided the rough and tumble world of politics in Washington.

  • He mostly delegated the messy task of lobbying to some of his key underlings.

  • That started to change after Trump won the election late last year.

  • Huang has been busy lobbying both Washington and Beijing.

  • Now, he's looking at a massive deal for his company, worth billions of dollars.

  • The deal could reshape how companies navigate business with the U.S. government,

  • and it's transformed the NVIDIA CEO into a major player in geopolitics.