After Tesla boss Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook fell out of favour with US President Donald Trump, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as a key player in easing tensions between the United States and China amid ongoing trade war and geopolitical tensions.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been active on the government relations and lobbying front, and now he’s got something big to show for his efforts: the Trump Administration has agreed to lift a ban on selling Nvidia H20 AI chips to China.

The federal government’s past restrictions on AI chip sales inside China were easily the biggest threat to American preeminence in the AI space.

Days after a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, Jensen Huang was being hailed by an audience on a stage in Beijing.

Nvidia has profited enormously from rapid adoption of AI, but the trade rivalry between the U.S. and China has been weighing heavily on the industry.

Jim Cramer believes that Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) is poised to get a significant boost with the U.S. government assuring licenses for the sale of its H20 chips or general processing units to China,

Dow Jones futures fell slightly overnight, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. United AirlinesUAL reported mixed results late Wednesday. NvidiaNVDA chipmaker Taiwan SemiconductorTSM headline earnings early Thursday with NetflixNFLX due after the close.

The tech giants said they can resume selling high-end semiconductors to China, in what appears to be a major about-face for the Trump administration.