Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US controls on AI chips exports to China were ‘a failure’

The United State government’s export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China were “a failure”, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Reuters reported on May 21. He was speaking at the annual Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan’s top tech show.

“The local companies are very, very talented and very determined, and the export control gave them the spirit, the energy and the government support to accelerate their development. I think, all in all, the export control was a failure,” Huang told reporters at Computex.