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U.S. Used Promise of Nvidia Chips to Broker Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Deal
Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement ending decades of conflict
U.S. negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia’s artificial-intelligence chips to help secure a preliminary peace deal reached last year between the nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to people involved in the talks.
The inclusion of expanded approvals for chip purchases for an Armenian data-center project as an inducement for the country to participate, which hasn’t been previously reported, represents one of the most striking instances to date of what U.S. officials are calling chip diplomacy.
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