Huang most public statements were ridiculously pro-China in the last few years. Coincident? I do not think so.
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-ceo-...
https://www.facebook.com/Benzinga/posts/nvidia-ceo-jensen-hu...
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-says-us-export-co...
https://archive.ph/TkBwb (Nvidia chief Jensen Huang condemns US chip curbs on China as ‘a failure’)
it is not a coincidence that maybe some faction of the CIA that feels threatened because Trump takes Huang's advice over theirs would leak this to try to blackmail or destroy him.
But so far the only criminal act and threat to national security that has been proven to have occurred is the leaking of this information.
Alternatively, NVIDIA simply benefits tremendously from enabling sales of new generation chips to China.
Also from domestic sales, most of which will be running open-weight models, most of which are from China.
I assumed most domestic sales were going to closed frontier models, through some mechanism or another (direct ownership, cloud resale, whole-gpu or whole-dc lease, etc). Got any numbers?
Ultimately if you have a GPU that can fit X parameter model at Y raw tokens per second, you want the smartest weights. If the frontier closed model is Z% smarter or “more valuable” you would be willing to pay up to Z% margin for the right to use it. Hence whether you are running open or closed model depends on pricing strategy of the frontier labs, also whether the frontier labs are able to diffuse their own models better than open labs can.
You think there needs to be a conspiracy for a GPU company to be in favour of selling GPUs into one of the largest markets for GPUs in the world?
In your words, this guy[1] was also selling as well "to one of the largest markets for GPUs in the world". So, his actions should be legal, and the arrest was wrong?
[1] - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-charged-conspiring-unla...
Going to repeat the words of another commenter here: "Crazy how naive HN is about foreign intelligence. "
Crazy of you to assume that every HN user is an American and supports Trump's interests in confronting China.
You don't need to like Trump to see China with more than a little suspicion. China it not a friend of the west.
The US has recently shown itself to be no friend of the west either, and the reasonable reaction for the rest of the west is to keep to their own interests.
we started dealing with that problem lately, I have no love lost for the current US administration and I'm European btw, but if you think China is not a problem for the EEUU you have something else coming your way.
It is better to deal with an honest and reasonable competitor/partner, rather than someone who calls themselves your friend, but could stab you in the back at any moment.
The USA is not the West.
The US is not friend of anyone. Just ask Denmark, Canada or Mexico. Or ask Nato countries, who are suppose to be official allies of the USA. Heck, ask kurds how their alliance with the USA and their sacrifices against ISIS went.
China is a way more of a fair and peaceful trading partner for the EU/World than the USA is.
I believe the GP's point is that profit is a sufficient motive for Nvidia wanting to sell GPUs to China, and thus for looking for ways to loosen or work around export restrictions, if not outright lawbreaking.
Meanwhile Trump, Moscow Mitch, and all their friends seem to be ridiculously pro-Russia... With one of them having an 'open for business' policy, where he receives large sums of crypto, airplanes, and other considerations from anyone who is willing to pay (and has received loans and cash injections in the past).
Pardon me if I find it difficult to get worked up about an accusation of treason and disloyalty from an openly corrupt and treasonous executive.