By Trevor Hunnicutt and Eduardo Baptista

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/GYEONGJU (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump may have teased that he could discuss Nvidia’s state-of-the-art artificial intelligence Blackwell chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but in the end, he said the topic didn’t come up.

After meeting with Xi in South Korea on Thursday, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that semiconductors had been discussed and that China is “going to be talking to Nvidia and others about taking chips,” but added: “We’re not talking about the Blackwell.”

A day earlier, Trump had praised the Blackwell chip as “super-duper”, adding he might speak to Xi about that – comments that likely helped Nvidia make history as the first company to reach a $5 trillion valuation.

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