Sources: Jensen Huang's affair has significantly raised the chances of Congress enacting chip export limits this year via the National Defense Authorization Act
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If a personal scandal can accelerate chip export limits into the NDAA, the policy risk around advanced GPUs just went from abstract to near-term. Any team planning AI scale-up on leading-edge Nvidia hardware should model tighter export controls and longer lead times as a base case, not a tail risk.
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