Why US chip controls took a back seat at Xi-Trump summit
There is little question that Jensen Huang and Lisa Su, the heads of U.S. semiconductor chip giants Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), had secured two of the best seats in the house at the White House state dinner on Thursday evening: at the head table alongside the two presidents and their wives. But what remains unclear is how much progress they were able to make on their primary goal of…
The US-China summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump yielded little progress on a key issue: reviving access to the Chinese market for US semiconductor chip companies. Despite Jensen Huang and Lisa Su, leaders of Nvidia and AMD respectively, being seated at the White House dinner alongside the two presidents, the topic of US semiconductor chip export controls did not appear to be a significant point of discussion.
Both Beijing and Washington summaries of the summit's outcomes did not explicitly mention export controls, raising questions about the extent to which the restrictions, which remain in place, were a sticking point during the talks. This is particularly perplexing given that Xi had frequently raised the issue of export controls during his visit.
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