Nvidia earnings call drama: Will Jensen Huang talk 'Trump' and China chips after Xi summit?

Cnbc · 🇨🇳 public China · May 18, 2026 · 332 words · By Davis Giangiulio

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All eyes are on Nvidia, the world's most valuable company and artificial intelligence trade darling, as it is set to report fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell.

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What happened

All eyes are on Nvidia, the world's most valuable company and artificial intelligence trade darling, as it is set to report fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell.

Why it matters

On its conference call, traders on prediction markets platform Kalshi think the company might talk about President Donald Trump after CEO Jensen Huang joined him on his trip to China.

Common ground

Trump has 50-50 odds of being mentioned on the call, with the chances rising recently.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Nvidia, the world's most valuable company”

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Multiple independent news sources (CNBC, Axios, South China Morning Post) confirm Nvidia is the world's most valuable company.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Nvidia... is the world's most valuable company
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/nvidia-ai-chip-rivals-fundin…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Nvidia [is] the world's most valuable company
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/wall-street-ai-chip-love-mov…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Nvidia has rapidly become the world's most valuable company
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/nvidia-rivals-chip-market-fu…

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Claim 2: “that topic [humanoid robots] didn't come up in the company's February earnings call”

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Claim 3: “it is set to report fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell”

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The provided web search results for this claim are general company descriptions from Wikipedia and the official site; they do not mention a specific earnings date or time.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia ... Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ ɛnˈvɪdiə / en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html

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web search NEUTRAL — From the cloud to the office to the data center to the edge, NVIDIA provides solutions that deliver breakthrough performance on enterprise AI and HPC workloads at any scale, driving business decisions…
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/

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Claim 4: “CEO Jensen Huang joined him [President Donald Trump] on his trip to China”

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Two independent CNBC reports confirm CEO Jensen Huang joined President Donald Trump on his trip to China.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference for developers that brings together developers, engineers, researchers, inventors, and IT professionals. Topi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_GTC

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; Tâi-lô: N̂g Jîn-hun; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese and American business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder, pre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corporation ( en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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Claim 5: “In his keynote address at the CES Trade Show in January, Huang said he expects to see robots with some human-level capabilities this year”

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Claim 6: “The president wasn't mentioned on the company's last earnings call in February”

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The evidence provided discusses Trump's general presence in earnings calls and his state visits, but does not specifically confirm or deny whether he was mentioned in Nvidia's February call.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his first presi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of presidential trips made by Donald Trump during 2026, the second year of his second presidency as the 47th president of the United States. This list excludes trips made within Washing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips_mad…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The White House State Ballroom is part of a planned new East Wing for the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States. The new East Wing will replace the original, which …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_State_Ballroom

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Claim 7: “CNBC and Kalshi have a commercial relationship that includes a CNBC minority investment”

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Claim 8: “Huang joined Trump for his summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping”

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Web search results and a Getty Images caption explicitly state that Jensen Huang was at the welcome ceremony for President Trump in Beijing on May 14.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The foreign policy of the second Trump administration has espoused a realist "America First" foreign policy agenda. It has been described as imperialist and expansionist in its approach to the America…
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Claim 9: “Trump told reporters last week that the chip model [H200] didn't come up in discussions with China”

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The claim states Trump said the H200 'didn't come up', but the evidence from Tom's Hardware explicitly states 'Trump said Friday that the topic came up during his meetings with Xi'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump enacted a series of steep tariffs affecting nearly all goods imported into the country. From January to April 2025, the overall a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_ad…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is used alongside the Lovelace microarchitecture. Named for computer scientist and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_(microarchitecture)

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Claim 10: “Reuters reported that the U.S. government gave approval to several Chinese firms to purchase the model”

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Three separate cross-references from CNBC confirm that Reuters reported the U.S. government approved the sale of H200 chips to Chinese firms like Alibaba and Tencent.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Reuters on Thursday reported that the U.S. gave the green light for several Chinese firms, including Alibaba and Tencent, to buy Nvidia's H200 chips
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/china-ai-chips-nvidia.html

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Reuters reported that Washington had cleared sales of Nvidia's H200 AI chips to several major Chinese technology firms
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/trump-xi-summit-tech-flashpo…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Reuters reported on Thursday that Washington had cleared sales of Nvidia's H200 AI chips to several major Chinese technology firms
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/the-tech-download-trump-xi-t…

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Claim 11: “China, though, hasn't allowed firms to purchase the chip, Trump claimed to reporters”

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Web search results confirm Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Beijing is refusing to let Chinese companies buy the H200 chips.

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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald Trump has said that Beijing is refusing to let Chinese companies buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips, telling reporters aboard Air Force One after the conclusion of a two-day summit with Chine…
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/trump-says-china-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump reversed the chip-selling restriction last July, but demanded that Nvidia pay a cut of its earnings from China to the US government. Beijing then reportedly ordered its tech companies to boycott…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4erx1n04lo

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web search NEUTRAL — Donald Trump got the pageantry he craved during his trip to China. But the US president concluded the summit largely where he began, receiving little help from his self-described “friend” Xi Jinping i…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/winners-a…

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Claim 12: “In January, Trump cleared the way for Chinese purchases of the chip model”

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Multiple web search results confirm that the Trump administration formally cleared exports of H200 chips to China in January under specific conditions.

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web search NEUTRAL — The H200 is Nvidia's most commercially advanced chip for AI workloads. It had been explicitly banned from export to China under previous export control rules. Corruption is nothing new in US politics,…
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-nvidia-stock-trades-ethics-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — Although the Trump administration approved H200 chip sales to China late last year and formally cleared the exports in January under specific conditions, no shipments have yet reached Chinese buyers.
https://www.arise.tv/nvidia-ceo-huang-joins-trumps-china-tri…

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web search NEUTRAL — Under terms formalized in January, each H200 must pass through U.S. territory for third-party inspection before re-export to China, and Nvidia must remit a 25% fee on every sale to the U.S. Treasury.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/trump-says-china-…

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Claim 13: “neither country revealed if Trump or Xi discussed Taiwan”

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Claim 14: “That came with a 25% tariff on imports for chips that will be sent to China”

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Web search results explicitly state that under the terms formalized in January, Nvidia must remit a 25% fee on every H200 sale to the U.S. Treasury.

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump threatens 25% tariff on Iran’s trade partnersUS approves exports of Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X chips to ChinaChina approves imports of H200 chips
https://www.vifindia.org/article/2026/may/12/Busan-to-Beijin…

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump imposed tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the President to modify imports if the Secretary of Commerce conducts an investigation and holds public hearings.[91].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_ad…

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web search NEUTRAL — Summit May 14-15 covers H200 export controls, China rare earths, AI governance, and trade worth $150B+. First US state visit since 2017.The summit follows the May 12 trade truce that cut US tariffs fr…
https://www.abhs.in/blog/trump-xi-beijing-summit-may-2026-se…

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