Friday arrives and the bury begins, or was it stage craft with storytelling savvy?

August 8

Techmeme: Sources: the US has started issuing licenses to Nvidia to export H20 chips to China following weeks of inaction, after Jensen Huang met Trump on Wednesday (Financial Times)

From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Considering the theatrical notion of so-called backdoors, kill switches, etc. the coverage timing of value chain companies (TSMC, etc.) and the expedient outcome (capitulation?) of export policy logjams — the arguably sudden resolution for NVIDIA interests is a bit on the nose.