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Trump Briefly Considered Breaking up Nvidia to Spur Competition, Then Backed Off
UNITED STATES, JUL 23 – Trump abandoned plans to break up Nvidia after meeting CEO Jensen Huang and learning the difficulty, as Nvidia became the first company valued at $4 trillion, driven by AI chip demand.
- On July 23, President Trump said at an AI summit in Washington that he once considered breaking up Nvidia to boost competition in AI chips.
- Trump initially lacked knowledge of Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang but reversed his stance after aides explained breaking up Nvidia would be very difficult.
- Nvidia, a leading chipmaker with a market value over $4 trillion, had its sales to China frozen under Trump’s administration but recently regained permission to sell H20 GPUs.
- Trump praised Huang by saying, "What a job you have done," while Huang credited Trump as America's unique advantage in AI development.
- Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan to ease regulatory hurdles, signaling support for the industry despite the complex challenges of increasing competition in AI chipmaking.
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In Recording, Trump Says He Didn't Even Know What Nvidia Was
While announcing his new so-called "AI Action Plan," which is primarily designed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for the industry, president Donald Trump made some baffling remarks. While standing next to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chipmaker leads the S&P 500 Top 10 Index with a multi-trillion-dollar market cap, Trump admitted he had no idea what Nvidia was, as Tom's Hardware noticed. Due to the president's garbled communication style, it's …
The US president planned to break up Nvidia into several companies to increase competition in the artificial intelligence chip market. Nvidia has not commented on the matter.
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