# Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei compared US chip sales to China with ‘selling nuclear weapons to North Korea’ The remark drew an angry response from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who called the analogy 'lunacy'

*semiconductor · news · 2026-04-18 · Times of India*

## Key points

- Dario Amodei compared US chip sales to China to selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.
- Jensen Huang claims chip sales to China could generate $50 billion annually for Nvidia.
- Huang warned cutting China off could split the global AI ecosystem into open and closed camps.
- Huang dismissed Google, Meta, and Anthropic's AI chips as isolated strategies, not industry-wide shifts.
- Anthropic's Google TPU deal comprises nearly all TPU growth, according to Huang.

**Companies:** Nvidia, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Amazon
**Countries:** United States, China

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