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Wearing his iconic leather jacket, Huang walked into the sunny courtyard of the Mandarin Oriental hotel earlier than scheduled and took multiple questions.

The approvals mark a major reversal after April’s sweeping restrictions, imposed by the Trump administration, barred companies from selling certain advanced semiconductors to China. Those rules left Nvidia facing a $4.5 billion inventory write-down, as it had no alternative buyers for its H20 chips.