US officials say Nvidia lobbied against remote-access chip rules

Two current US Commerce officials say Nvidia lobbied especially hard against rules on remote access, the route Chinese AI labs use to reach restricted chips in data centers in Singapore and Malaysia.

The officials say that lobbying, along with opposition from other officials, previously stopped Commerce and Congress from writing new rules on remote access.

In late October, the White House asked Congress to add a provision to the Overwatch Act requiring Commerce to write a rule against remote access to certain chips.