Nvidia CEO will be one of the few tech bigwigs to skip Trumps inauguration
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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and even TikToks CEO Shou Chew are among the powerful tech leaders lined up to attend Donald Trumps inauguration on Monday, but Nvidias CEO wont be joining them. Reuters reports that when asked about his attendance, Jensen Huang said he would instead be celebrating the Lunar New Year on the road with employees and their families.While Huang wont be present at the President-elects ceremony, he said he will look forward to congratulating the Trump administration when they take office. Huang also told reporters outside Nvidias New Year party in Taipei that he discussed increasing the production of Nvidias advanced Blackwell artificial intelligence chips with Chung Ching Wei, the chairman of Nvidias main supplier, TSMC.Nvidia is estimated to control 90 percent of the market share of AI chips. The company criticized a new AI framework announced by the Biden administration last week that would limit how many AI chips companies can send to different countries. In its blog post, Nvidia praised the more lax regulatory environment put in place by the first Trump administration and said it looks forward to a return to policies that strengthen American leadership.Nvidia is notably not among the list of companies and tech execs to have donated to Trumps inauguration, with Meta, Google, Microsoft, OpenAIs Sam Altman, and Apples Tim Cook having each pledged $1 million to fund the ceremony. Huang also hasnt appeared at Mar-a-Lago to schmooze Trump directly, unlike top execs from other companies like Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
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