Aside from running the world’s first $US5 trillion ($7.6trn) company, Jensen Huang is an unlikely figure to have gained President Donald Trump’s ear. The Taiwanese American founder of AI chipmaker Nvidia wants to export more to China at a time when the President is locked in a fiery trade war with the country.

He has forthrightly declared immigration a boon for the American Dream, not a threat as Mr Trump has suggested. And his wonky semiconductor business runs on entirely different principles than the blustery commercial real estate sector that brought Mr Trump to prominence.

Yet Mr Trump has repeatedly praised the leather-jacket-wearing billionaire this year, an indication of how vital Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology is to the President’s vision of America’s industrial reju

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