Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticized U.S. export controls blocking the sale of its AI chips to China. Last month, the chipmaker noted a $5.5 billion write-down to its inventory, after the U.S. demanded companies get a license to sell their AI chips to China.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly called Washington’s export curbs on the sale of AI chips to China a “failure” that would drive Chinese rivals to speed up developing their own semiconductors.

Jensen Huang, the head of Nvidia, said the United States’ export restrictions on AI chips have failed. Speaking on stage at the Computex tech conference in