The Incumbents Ready to Pounce
I think the real winners here might not be the flashy new startups, but the ossified giants of enterprise hardware. Companies like Dell and Cisco have spent decades building painfully thorough compliance departments. Yesterday, that looked like a bloated overhead. Today, it looks like a masterstroke.
When the market gets spooked, boring is beautiful.
Dell, for instance, has the sheer scale and the pristine regulatory pedigree to absorb the panicked clients fleeing their current suppliers. Nvidia remains largely insulated. They manufacture the chips everybody desperately needs, but the approved pathways to acquire those chips are undoubtedly shrinking. The money might easily flow toward those who can prove they know exactly where their boxes are going.