Nvidia lobbyist used Trump ties to sway U.S. chip export policy
Former Nvidia lobbyist Tim Teter, who heads the company’s Washington team, used the firm’s relationship with President Donald Trump to shape U. S. export-control legislation and downplay the technical feasibility of chip-location requirements, former staffers said.
The effort coincided with Congress moving to tighten chip export controls. Republican and Democratic leaders advanced three bills to restrict advanced semiconductor exports to China and sought to embed them in the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act. Lawmakers have also voiced concerns that advanced AI chips could aid China’s AI development, and research has shown that Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs, which are barred from export to China, were used to train leading Chinese AI models.
