NVIDIA CEO says that artificial intelligence innovations such as Chinese Deepseek show how “he finds programs” amid US export controls.

• The United States imposed sweeping export regulations on China over high -end chips in 2022.

• The CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang said that China’s revenues were double what pre -export controls.

• “It is difficult to know if export controls are effective with regard to innovation,” CNBC CEO told CNBC.

Nvidia Jensen Huang CEO is not sure whether export controls against China are effective national security measures in the AI ​​race. However, they definitely harmed the work of the chips maker abroad.

“It is difficult to know if the export control is effective,” Hwang said in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. The CEO was answering a question about whether the emerging Chinese company Deepseek and its recent models have shown that there were solutions against the sanctions imposed by the United States on semiconductors.

“The percentage of returns in China was before the controls for export twice as they are now,” the CEO said, adding that the competition from China is still harsh with companies like Huawei and the programs will continue to innovate.

“I think in the end, the program finds a way. Perhaps this is the easiest way to think about it,” he said. “Whether you are developing a program to obtain a super computer, a program for a personal computer, a phone program, or a program for a game control unit – you ultimately make this program work on any system you target and create a great program.”

Since the United States carried out export controls on semiconductors in 2022 – and stressed those restrictions in 2023 – NVIDIA’s revenues from China have achieved great success.

For the fiscal year ending January 2023, China in NVIDIA has reached 21 % of the company’s total revenue. For the same fiscal year ending in January 2025, revenues from China reached about 13 % of NVIDIA’s total revenue.

A NVIDIA spokesman rejected the comment.

Despite the export restrictions and a brief shock to the chip maker’s stock after Dibsik revealed the thinking model in R1, NVIDIA reported another strong quarter on Wednesday, as its total revenues increased to $ 39.3 billion – An increase of 78 % on an annual basis of $ 22.1 billion.

NVIDIA witnessed a short sale after the Deepseek version in January. In one day, it eradicates approximately $ 600 billion from the maximum market, which put the company’s evaluation of about 2.4 trillion dollars.

The company has since regained its loss on the market, currently located with a rate of $ 3.22 trillion.

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