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Nvidia has hired BGR Government Affairs for strategic counsel regarding international trade in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence.
Nvidia CEO Jason Huang ironed out a deal with the Trump administration that gives the US a 15 percent cut of the company’s chip sales to China.
The Financial Times reported Aug. 21 that the deal is under pressure as Chinese regulators are dissuading domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia’s H20 chip following “insulting” remarks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made on CNBC.
“We don’t sell them our best stuff, not our second-best stuff, not even our third-best,” he said on July 15. “You want to sell the Chinese enough that their developers get addicted to the American technology stack, that’s the thinking,”
BGR is the firm of Haley Barbour, former Republican National Committee chair and Mississippi governor.
President Erskine Wells, one-time aide to Mississippi Congressman and Senator Roger Wicker, heads the BGR team that includes Dan Greenwood, defense & critical technologies practice head; and Justin Rzepka, commerce & infrastructure head.
BGR joins Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and the Vogel Group on Nvidia’s lobbying payroll.
Scouting America has signed on Alpine Group for matters related to support of the organization from the Department of Defense and Congress.
The City of Miami, which has just elected its first Democratic mayor in 28 years, has hired Trump-connected Continental Strategy to work on federal procurement matters.
Miller Strategies, the well-connected Republican firm, has inked a $1.5M one-year consulting contract from Emirates Global Aluminum, the biggest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil & gas sector.
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence start-up, has retained Republican powerhouse firm Fierce Government Relations for DC representation.
Chad Horrell, who was senior manager for government relations at DoorDash, has joined BGR Group as VP in its state and local practice.
