By Blake Montgomery
Publication Date: 2026-05-12 07:00:00
Donald Trump is traveling to China this week. If his guest list is any indication, he wants to discuss technology with Xi Jinping, although perhaps after the war in Iran.
On Monday it was announced that outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk would be joining the US president. Other technology guests include Meta’s recently appointed president, Dina Powell McCormick; Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of computer memory maker Micron; Chuck Robbins, CEO of longtime telecommunications giant Cisco; and Cristiano Amon, CEO of semiconductor maker Qualcomm, according to a White House official.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — who is close to Trump but criticized U.S. restrictions on chip sales to China in an interview in April and said he didn’t want a “loser mentality” to cost the U.S. its lead in AI — will not join the president. A major semiconductor deal seems less likely without the world’s top chipmaker, although an announcement from Micron…
