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The Scenario That Should Keep Silicon Valley Awake

Date: March 15, 2027 (18 months from now)

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, stares at the emergency board presentation. The numbers are catastrophic: China revenue, once $20 billion annually, has dropped to zero in just six months. Not declined. Not reduced. Zero.

But it's worse than just losing chip sales. Eve…

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