By Shubhangi Chowdhury
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House before heading to China, according to someone familiar with the plans. This comes just after Nvidia’s market value topped $4 trillion for the first time earlier this week, officially making it the most valuable company in the world.
The details of what will be discussed at the meeting are still under wraps, but Bloomberg was the first to report on the meetup between Huang and Trump. There’s already speculation that the conversation could center around the export restrictions imposed by Trump’s administration—particularly the ones that directly impacted Nvidia’s business in China.
Back in April, the Trump administration blocked Nvidia from selling its H20 chip, a product specifically designed for the Chinese market. Huang didn’t hold back in criticizing the move, calling it “a springboard to global success.” But the impact wasn’t just symbolic—it was costly. The export curbs wiped out $4.5 billion worth of unsold H20 inventory in its first fiscal quarter of 2026. With an additional of $2.5 billion in potential sales which could not be shipped.
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Given the rising tensions around U.S.–China tech policy, Huang has made it clear Nvidia is adjusting course. In a June interview with CNN, he said the company will no longer factor China into its revenue and profit forecasts due to the increasingly strict U.S. trade restrictions.
This meeting with Trump could signal Huang’s attempt to address those barriers or at least try to shape the next chapter of Nvidia amid U.S.-China trade relations.
Nvidia has officially pulled ahead of both Apple and Microsoft—the only two companies that had previously crossed the $3 trillion mark. Its cutting-edge AI chips have become the backbone of the global AI boom, and that demand has skyrocketed Nvidia’s value in the market.
The chip giant’s new Blackwell chips are beasts—more than twice as fast as the last generation when it comes to training massive models like Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B.
Nvidia is also teaming up with major players worldwide to create AI factories designed to supercharge both model training and real-time inference. It’s a full-speed push to stay at the forefront of the AI race.