Nvidia is trying to kill the momentum behind a proposed US law that would force it to sell the most advanced GPUs to Americans first before they could be exported abroad.
“In trying to solve a problem that does not exist, the proposed bill would restrict competition worldwide in any industry that uses mainstream computing chips,” the company tweeted today.
Nvidia took direct aim at the “GAIN AI Act” after the US Senate added the legislation to the latest draft of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026.
Banks also spoke with former Trump administration strategist and political pundit Steve Bannon, urging other senators to support and pass the legislation. “There’s nothing more America first than making sure we dominate the race to AI, and the technologies of the future,” he added.
This comes as Democrats have also been critical of Nvidia’s advanced AI chip sales to China, citing national security risks.
If it does pass, the GAIN AI Act could drastically change how Nvidia and AMD conduct business. The two companies would only be able to export their leading GPUs if there’s “no current backlog of requests from United States persons for the circuit or product or a comparable circuit or product,” the text says.
Although current US policy already prohibits the export of the most powerful GPUs, including the RTX 5090, to China, the GAIN AI Act could restrict even more products since it appears to target a class of GPUs below the top-tier chips.