Nvidia Ceo Will Be One Of The Few Tech Bigwigs To Skip Trump’s Inauguration

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos are among nan powerful tech leaders lined up to beryllium Donald Trump’s inauguration connected Monday, but Nvidia’s CEO won’t beryllium joining them. Reuters reports that erstwhile asked astir his attendance, Jensen Huang said he would alternatively beryllium celebrating nan Lunar New Year “on nan road” pinch labour and their families.

While Huang won’t beryllium coming astatine nan President-elect’s ceremony, he said he will “look guardant to congratulating nan Trump guidance erstwhile they return office.” Huang too told reporters extracurricular Nvidia’s New Year connection successful Taipei that he discussed expanding nan accumulation of Nvidia’s precocious Blackwell artificial intelligence chips pinch Chung Ching Wei, nan president of Nvidia’s main supplier, TSMC.

Nvidia is estimated to powerfulness 90 percent of nan marketplace banal of AI chips. The institution criticized a caller AI exemplary announced by nan Biden management past week that would limit really galore AI chips companies tin nonstop to different countries. In its blog post, Nvidia praised nan overmuch lax regulatory business put successful spot by nan first Trump guidance and said it looks guardant to “a return to policies that fortify American leadership.”

Nvidia is notably not among nan database of companies to personification donated to Trump’s inauguration, pinch OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Microsoft having each pledged $1 cardinal to money nan ceremony. Huang too hasn’t appeared astatine Mar-a-Lago to schmooze Trump directly, dissimilar apical execs from different companies for illustration Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.