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The resignation closed one chapter, but the harder questions about Nvidia in China and what Washington knew are only starting, and they reach well past one company.
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The Verge is having fun with the tabloid side, and so is everyone, but the jokes land on a serious point: the real story is chips, China and what the White House was told.
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