Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter told more than a dozen government officials working on terms & conditions for the company's H200 chip exports to China that he was in a meeting with President Trump and Jensen Huang to discuss the issue, Semafor reported Friday.
Tim Teter, EVP, General Counsel and Secretary"He wants this to go fast," Teter said on the January call, according to people with access to a detailed account of it. The line went quiet.
In order to remain compliant, chip sellers would be required to know who their cloud customers were before shipping and to vet anyone buying more than a few thousand chips (recall China's 'technically legal' loophole). Teter called the cloud-customer requirement a deal-killer for Nvidia, and the company pushed to raise the vetting threshold to the tens of thousands of chips, billions of dollars' worth, and to limit end-of-life conditions to chips already under export controls.
According to the report, Teter bandied about DC name-dropping Trump to try and grease gears. In one exchange the outlet viewed, he accused officials drafting export restrictions of misrepresenting Nvidia's prod
