[WSJ: U.S. Uses NVIDIA Chip Promise to Facilitate Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Agreement] BlockBeats News, September 5, according to a WSJ report, sources familiar with the negotiations stated that U.S. negotiators used the promise of access to NVIDIA (NVDA.O) AI chips to help facilitate a preliminary peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan last year. A previously unreported detail is that, to encourage Armenia's participation in the negotiations, the U.S. specifically expanded chip procurement approval for its data center projects. This move has become one of the most notable examples to date of what U.S. officials call 'chip diplomacy.' Although the Trump administration had previously used AI hardware in negotiations with the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the Armenia agreement marks the first publicly known instance of such methods being used to broker a peace deal. This agreement further deepened the White House's relationship with the world's largest chip manufacturer.