Just hours after Donald Trump left China, Beijing announced 'ban' on this US tech company

Key points

• Banning the ‘watered-down’ flagship chip China chip ban is Jensen Huang’s ‘biggest fear’ China has reportedly banned on the specialised graphics chip from American tech giant Nvidia.
• According to a report by the Financial Times, Beijing blacklisted Nvidia’s RTX 5090D V2 graphics card, which is an export-friendly version of its top-end RTX 5090 GPU.
• While the strict customs ban is a big development itself, this came on Friday (May 15) – just hours after US President Donald Trump and his delegation concluded a high-profile state visit to the country.It is to be noted that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was personally in China during the visit, and he was a last-minute addition to the American entourage, famously boarding Air Force One in Alaska to join Trump’s official guest list.The chip at the centre of the ban is the RTX 5090D V2, which has been specifically engineered by Nvidia to align with...