Tim Cook and Elon Musk, among other tech CEOS, will accompany the US president on a trip to Beijing
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian.
Donald Trump is headed to China this week. If his guest list is any clue, he wants to discuss technology with Xi Jinping, though perhaps after the war in Iran.
On Monday, news broke that outgoing Apple CEO, Tim Cook, as well as SpaceX and Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, would join Trump. Other guests from the tech sphere include Dina Powell McCormick, Meta’s recently appointed president; Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of computer memory maker Micron; Chuck Robbins, CEO of longtime telecom giant Cisco; and Cristiano Amon, CEO of semiconductor maker Qualcomm, according to a White House official.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, who is close to Trump but criticized the US’s limitations on chip sales to China in an April interview, saying that he didn’t want a “loser mentality” to cost the US its edge in AI, will not be joining the president. A major deal on semiconductors seems less likely without the world’s most important chipmaker, though an announcement from Micron seems possible.
