Jensen Huang agrees to testify before Congress

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Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to attest earlier Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast said connected Thursday, according to reports from Bloomberg and NBC News.

Huang, who stepped down arsenic CEO pursuing reports of an alleged matter with a pistillate suspected of spying for China, agreed to attest Wednesday aft respective elder lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.

Huang has agreed to attest earlier Congress by Thanksgiving, which falls aboriginal this month.

The improvement comes aft House Republicans Mast, John Moolenaar, and Rick Crawford sent Huang a missive connected November 4 requesting that he look earlier their committees. Moolenaar chairs the House Select Committee connected the Chinese Communist Party, Mast chairs the House Committee connected Foreign Affairs, and Crawford chairs the House Intelligence Committee.

“Jensen and I person been precise astatine likelihood arsenic immoderate of you already cognize connected export controls, but Nvidia is simply a precise important institution to the United States of America,” Mast said to reporters. “I don’t privation to spot thing wounded successful Nvidia, but helium has immoderate precise superior questions to answer.”

The grounds volition instrumentality spot down closed doors, though Mast said helium expects the briefing to beryllium recorded connected video and transcribed.

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