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Item 1 of 2 Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks with the media ahead of a meeting with the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 3, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
**[1/2]**Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks with the media ahead of a meeting with the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 3, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had visited with Nvidia's [(NVDA.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang and said the chip giant executive was aware of where he stood on export controls.
"Smart man," Trump said about Huang when asked about the meeting. Pressed on whether he had made clear to Huang his views on export controls and the types of chips that the company could give to China, Trump said: "He knows."
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Nvidia did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Huang's meeting with Trump comes as the administration is considering [whether to allow Nvidia](/world/asia-pacific/us-considering-letting-nvidia-sell-h200-chips-china-sources-say-2025-11-21/) to sell its H200 chips, which are one generation [behind its current flagship chips](/world/china/nvidia-servers-speed-up-ai-models-chinas-moonshoot-ai-others-tenfold-2025-12-03/), to China.
Huang was in the U.S. capital meeting with lawmakers, where he told them that state-by-state U.S. regulations would slow the progress of AI development, he told CNBC.
Nvidia had also opposed a separate proposed piece of legislation that would have required it to offer to sell its chips to U.S. customers before obtaining licenses to sell those chips to "countries of concern." Nvidia had argued the bill would restrict global competition in AI markets.
Later in the day at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where Nvidia is a corporate donor, Huang downplayed concerns that Nvidia's chips are being smuggled in large volumes to countries where they are banned.
"A GPU for AI data centers, that GPU weighs two tons," Huang said, referring to the firm's graphics processing units.
"It has one and a half million parts. It consumes 200,000 watts. It costs $3 million. Every so often somebody says, you know, these GPUs are being smuggled. I really would love to see it - not to mention you have to smuggle enough of them to fill a football field."
Reporting by Jeff Mason in Washington, Stephen Nellis in San Francisco and Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Deepa Babington, Diane Craft and Sonali Paul
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Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters. He has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the presidential campaigns of Biden, Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. He served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2016-2017, leading the press corps in advocating for press freedom in the early days of the Trump administration. His and the WHCA's work was recognized with Deutsche Welle's "Freedom of Speech Award." Jeff has asked pointed questions of domestic and foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. He is a winner of the WHCA's “Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure" award and co-winner of the Association for Business Journalists' "Breaking News" award. Jeff began his career in Frankfurt, Germany as a business reporter before being posted to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. Jeff appears regularly on television and radio and teaches political journalism at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a former Fulbright scholar.
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title:Trump met with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on export controls, source says
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