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NVDA directional thesis

Chip export controls to China keep failing no matter how clear the security case, because the money riding on selling those chips is just too big.

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“A thing I've been trying to fight for is export controls on chips to China. And that's in the national security interests of the US... And yet it doesn't happen. And we sell the chips because there's so much money, there's so much money riding on it.”
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