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Comment by onetimeusename | original | Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business
[−]onetimeusename · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:19 UTC · link
I am not sure if we have an answer to this. On one hand it gives China more capabilities. On the other, China could develop their own compute chips which would give them an even bigger capability, they have ways of getting the chips anyway and it's difficult to stop that meaningfully, and it benefits the US marginally to sell them. It benefits Nvidia a lot so Jensen's advocacy on this topic is self serving. But I don't think there's a correct answer here.

That said, easing restrictions happened earlier this year and was announced publicly and suddenly now everyone has become a China hawk.

If you want my personal opinion, Jensen might be right here.