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Speaker 2: feel like I was preparing for the show and then

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Speaker 2: suddenly crossing the vire is China targets Nvidia over a

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Speaker 2: two hunt over a twenty twenty deal, and with us

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Speaker 2: to explain all of that is Bloomberg Intelligence, Globalhead of

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Speaker 2: Technology Research, Mandy Singh. So, Mandy Mason, what we know

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Speaker 2: so far? How serious are the alleged conditions that Invidio

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Speaker 2: may have breached this Melanox acquisition and is this noise

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Speaker 2: or should this be something that we should take seriously?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean typically what we have seen in cases

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, China knows that Nvidia

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Speaker 3: But to my mind, it is just a negotiation lever

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Speaker 4: and again we are looking at shares of Nvidia isabel

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Speaker 4: Right, so this will properly motivate him. I'm so glad

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Speaker 4: What was the most I don't want to use the

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Speaker 7: Yeah? I mean in terms of the milestones there, I

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Speaker 7: Tesla now is trying to sort of, you know, incentivize

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Speaker 2: This must buying shares personally, is governance concerns or could

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Speaker 7: You know, I think just generally whenever a CEO or

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Speaker 7: It does, however, I think it's worth sort of you know,

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Speaker 4: All of this emphasis on what Elon Musk can do

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Speaker 4: really raises a key man risk. Here is there succession

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm looking at the company management and he's

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Speaker 5: Two point four years. He's the senior vice president of APAK.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a very good question, and it's something that's

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Speaker 7: I think they want to kind of have it both ways,

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Speaker 4: Correct Trudell always a pleasure of Bloomberg Global Autos editor

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