• DekSomBoon@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    I guess hooking up with a spy to arrange deals to smuggle forbidden goods to china is one way to get year over year growth

  • Ivan Overdrive@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Jensen Huang is a traitor. He knew the CCP would try to get him in a honey pot. He stuck his dick right in knowing full well what he was doing.

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    We need to get spacex and nvidia under tight government controls if theres natuonal security risks around the way they do business, and there obviously is, centered on out of control tech ceos. Includes many others, including Thiel and Ellison. They need to be on a leash ,or else in prison, or out of the pictire. We cant just let them act like capitalist assholes when the countries security is at play. And if they want to leave, cool, but their companies and tech that was built in America with the benefits of American infra stays. They can have a plane ticket and we wish them well.

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    Oh, dude was doing like, treason levels of smuggling.

    Wonder if public execution is on the table for billionaires???

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      It already is. Bloomberg is reporting that NVIDIA’s top lawyer pulled strings in the Trump administration to muzzle an investigation into the chip exports. More rich people looking out for other rich people, ignoring their own rules when it’s inconvenient.

      https://archive.is/20261110132303/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-09/nvidia-intervened-in-us-probe-of-megaspeed-chip-smuggling

      The silver lining is that Jason Huang reportedly has no prenup with his wife, so if she divorces him for cheating she’ll take half of his $155B fortune. It’s the only substantial punishment that anyone in this story is likely to receive. Everyone else will be pardoned or quietly moved out of harm’s way.

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        Why do people bring up the prenup thing? It’s completely and utterly irrelevant.

        They got married 8 years before Nvidia was created. Even if they had a prenup, it would have never covered anything from Nvidia anyway, because Nvidia didn’t exist prior to their nuptials. Prenups do not apply to assets gained after the marriage comes in force. Those are always marital assets. Any prenup that tries to protect new assets gained during the marriage wouldn’t be enforceable.

        They didn’t have a prenup because at the time they married, and years into it, she actually made more money than he did because she was a more experienced chip designer and worked at AMD. She financially supported him and their family in the early days after he left his paying job to start Nvidia, and she gave design ideas for some of their early chips.

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          Why do people bring up the prenup thing?

          Schadenfreude. The thought that a multi-billionaire might face some kind of consequences, even if they remain a multi-billionaire.

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            Wild that losing half your fortune still leaves you with 77 billion fucking dollars.

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            I get that, but it literally doesn’t apply.

            Prenup or not, they were married before Nvidia existed. She’s getting that money no matter what. It’s marital assets.

            The prenup is wholly irrelevant, so bringing it up just shows ignorance in the form of overconfidence.

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          Actually not true-- it depends on whats written in the prenup. Prenups can absolutely include agreements around future income and assets, designating them as non marital assets.

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            17 hours ago

            Only for gains on assets that already existed prior to the marriage. Like if he owned Nvidia first, he could prenup gains from Nvidia.

            You cannot prenup nonexistent assets.

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      Wasn’t that type of transaction. Jensen got the pussy and 7.5B.

      I’m sure he must be seeing this as an absolute win, until the spy news broke out.

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        No wonder he said he was “happy to pay” the $8 billion wealth tax California recently passed. China was covering it for him.

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            And TVs, and internet, and pretty much everything that uses modern technologies.

            Your TV needs DRAM because unlike CRT TVs receiving analogue signal that gets fed into the cathode tube, you now have digital signals (not to mention streaming and smart TV parts), which needs to be decoded into memory then sent to a display controller (which also takes DRAM).

            Every single networking equipment needs DRAM for temporary storage that isn’t a simple bridge controller (i.e. a basic network switch). Including your router.

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          decent point. Even if he was penalized and divorced and lost half his wealth, he’ll always live in the lap of the best luxury in the world and if he wants 5 different highly motivated escorts to sex up every night for the rest of his life, he will absolutely have it and it wont make even a slight dent in his wealth. Even one billion is a lot, not to mention 80 or 160.

          Paying 5 escorts 10k each, every day, for 30 years, is only 500 million or so.

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    Apparently Nvidia’s export controls had two settings: restricted for everyone else and »call Jensen« for the VIP list. If these allegations hold up, the real breakthrough wasn’t the H100 architecture. It was discovering that 240,000 supposedly banned chips could pass through a relationship faster than customs.

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    That’s $31,250 per chip lol.

    Pretty sure the big weapons manufacturers have sold weapons to enemies for lower margins than that and gotten off just fine.