Nvidia CEO says global cooperation in tech will continue under Trump administration

President-elect Donald Trump, in his first length of time reasonably than job, imposed a sequence of restrictions on the sale of US technology to China citing nationwide security concerns – a policy broadly persisted below incumbent President Joe Biden

Reuters

23 November, 2024, 12:00 pm

Final modified: 23 November, 2024, 12:05 pm

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated on Saturday that world collaboration and cooperation in technology will proceed, even supposing the incoming US administration imposes stricter export controls on superior computing products.

President-elect Donald Trump, in his first length of time reasonably than job, imposed a sequence of restrictions on the sale of US technology to China citing nationwide security concerns – a policy broadly persisted below incumbent President Joe Biden.

“Delivery science in world collaboration, cooperation at some level of maths and science has been around for a truly very long time. It is some distance the foundation of social advancement and scientific advancement,” Huang told the media at some level of a consult with to Hong Kong.

International cooperation is “going to proceed. I do no longer know what’s going down to occur within the unique administration, but whatever happens, we will balance concurrently compliance with felony pointers and policies, proceed to approach our technology and toughen and support customers everywhere in the field.”

Earlier on Saturday Huang told graduates and lecturers on the Hong Kong College of Science and Technology that “the age of AI has started” in a speech after receiving an honorary doctorate diploma in engineering.

The head of the field’s main maker of chips extinct for synthetic intelligence capabilities got the award alongside actor Tony Leung, Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner Prof. Michael Levitt and Fields Medallist Prof. David Mumford.

“The age of AI has started. A singular computing generation that will impact every business and each self-discipline of science,” stated Huang.

He stated Nvidia has “reinvented computing and sparked a unique industrial revolution,” 25 years after inventing the graphics processing unit.

“AI is completely a truly mighty technology of our time, and potentially of all instances.”

Huang, 61, additionally told graduates that he wished he had started his occupation straight away.

“The total world is reset. You doubtlessly can additionally be first and well-known lines with all people else. An business is being reinvented. You now rating the instruments, the instruments essential to approach science in so many different fields,” Huang stated.

“The excellent challenges of our time, incredible challenges to beat within the previous, all of a unexpected seem that you would possibly maybe be additionally factor in to take care of.”

In the afternoon, Huang will participate in a fire chat with the university’s Council Chairman Harry Sham, teachers and students.