Why this analyst is 'confident' in US–China trade deal for Nvidia

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Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 7:02 AM

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Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang reportedly met with Chinese officials successful Beijing aft the chipmaker disclosed a $5.5 cardinal nonaccomplishment owed to caller US spot commercialized restrictions connected exports to China, which sent the banal tumbling connected Wednesday. Moor Insights & Strategy founder, CEO, and main expert Patrick Moorhead joins Morning Brief with Madison Mills and Brad Smith to sermon his expectations for the ongoing US–China commercialized warfare arsenic good arsenic the artificial quality (AI) chipmaker's position.

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00:00 Speaker A

And Patrick, uh, would beryllium remiss to not speech to you astir Nvidia. Nvidia taking a 5 and a fractional cardinal dollar deed owed to export controls. The banal dropping importantly disconnected the backmost of that. Just hardly supra the level enactment today. CEO Jensen Huang is successful Beijing according to authorities media. Talk to maine astir what this tit for tat implicit tariffs means for Nvidia? Just however large a headwind is it for Nvidia to beryllium capable to bushed the streets entity precocious estimates moving forward?

00:45 Patrick

Yeah, so, H20 portion the 5 and a fractional cardinal dollar close disconnected is, is not zero, uh, I, I deliberation the biggest hazard present is, is if this escalates and with Nvidia doing, Nvidia, Intel, and AMD doing betwixt 20 and 30% of their concern wrong of China. That's the biggest menace that escalates and gets into not conscionable information halfway accelerators, but also, uh, notebook GPUs, gaming GPUs, uh, CPUs from AMD, uh, and Intel.

01:53 Speaker A

And so, with that successful caput astatine this juncture for investors that are trying to champion crippled out, what they're seeing really successful immoderate of the options AI marketplace arsenic well. I mean, this is simply a imaginable 11% determination to the upside oregon downside by this adjacent clip Nvidia reports earnings. What should they beryllium benignant of looking astatine arsenic either a intelligence marker oregon possibly a method marker that, uh, determines whether oregon not this is simply a harmless level to invest.

02:35 Patrick

Yeah, I deliberation looking astatine the intelligence marker, which is, uh, and not excessively galore radical are talking astir this. I deliberation the Trump medication has painted itself into a small spot of a country and is trying to find a mode to get retired of this, uh, due to the fact that they cognize that if you bring down Apple, you bring down Nvidia, you're tanking the market. So, I consciousness beauteous assured implicit the adjacent 90 days that this is going to beryllium resolved. Uh, I deliberation it'll beryllium hard for Nvidia to springiness a stone coagulated forecast, but I bash deliberation that they volition springiness 1 based connected the accusation they cognize and past retired the different broadside of their mouth, they're going to accidental these are, these are the risks, uh, of that forecast.

04:04 Speaker A

So then, Patrick, which chips sanction should investors who person a semipermanent skyline beryllium invested successful close now?

04:16 Patrick

Long-term horizon, 5 years, I judge that the champion stake is Intel. And that mightiness travel arsenic astonishment to everybody retired there, but it's trading adjacent publication value. Uh, its 18A and 14A process are connected schedule. We're going to proceed to person a, a positive connected US company, US built semiconductors. All Intel has to bash is deed a mates of, uh, uh, not location runs, conscionable getting to 2nd basal and you're going to see, uh, you're going to spot Intel move, uh, a ton. And also, Lipu Tan, we haven't seen immoderate of the large decisions that he's made yet arsenic a caller CEO and I deliberation immoderate helium puts retired there, uh, whether it's monolithic occupation cuts, uh, R&D cuts, uh, merchantability of assets, uh, helium just, uh, unloaded Altera. I deliberation these volition beryllium positive, uh, quality for investors with Intel.

05:57 Speaker A

Yeah, I was conscionable astir to admit that, Patrick. It's a larger question of however overmuch of the concern arsenic we cognize it close present is inactive intact, oregon if there's a benignant of sum of parts that we're going to beryllium looking astatine successful the future. Patrick, arsenic always, acknowledgment truthful overmuch for taking the time.

06:18 Patrick

Thank you.


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