Jensen Huang politely declines to testify before Congress; U.S. lawmakers criticize: He has time to eat Zhajiang noodles but no time to explain NVIDIA's business in China.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declines the U.S. Senate’s invitation to testify and refuses to publicly answer how his company ships chips to China in the gray area of export control policies.
(Background: Jensen Huang: Blackwell and Rubin should not be allowed to reach China; NVIDIA’s China market share remains zero, and it will not back down)
(Additional background: China warns mainland companies, “Don’t buy NVIDIA AI chips”—switch to Huawei instead; Cambricon and SMIC shares surge 20%)

On Monday (the 8th), NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang formally replied in writing to decline attending a hearing of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee scheduled for June 11. The hearing is titled “AI and the American Dream,” and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to publicly press NVIDIA on its business in China and the company’s true position on U.S. export control policies.

According to NBC News verification, this would have been Huang’s first opportunity to testify before Congress in his history, but he chose to forgo it.

Jensen Huang proposes an alternative

In his letter, Huang was not silent—he proposed an alternative: inviting Warren and other committee members to visit NVIDIA’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, for exchanges. The topic could focus on AI technology, the U.S. AI ecosystem, and how to maintain the United States’ leading position. He also emphasized that NVIDIA built the first AI supercomputer for U.S. researchers more than 10 years ago.

Instead of a congressional hearing, make it a corporate visit; instead of public grilling, hold a dialogue on the company’s home turf. Huang did not directly refuse to discuss the issue—he simply changed the arena to one where he could control the narrative.

As a member of the Trump Technology Advisory Committee, Huang has repeatedly argued in recent years that U.S. companies should be allowed to compete freely in China and overseas markets and provide China with the most competitive products. In today’s climate of heightened geopolitical tension, that stance is itself a highly political choice.

When criticizing this decision, Warren was blunt: “The American people have the right to get answers in a public forum.” She also mocked further:

“If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-per-person dinner at the Mar-a-Lago estate and travel to China to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he should also be able to find time to answer questions in Congress.”

The cost of China’s market share reaching zero

NVIDIA’s market share in China’s high-end AI accelerator market has fallen from about 95% to nearly zero. Put simply: in China’s government-supported data centers, NVIDIA’s products are almost treated as non-compliant—95% versus nearly 0%—a complete collapse in the market.

Under this policy environment, NVIDIA’s FY2026 financial forecast explicitly assumes that “revenue from China’s data center computing market is zero,” and it recognizes an impairment of approximately $4.5 billion related to H20 inventory and procurement obligations.

However, although this is what is stated on the surface, an industry-known fact is that many third-party shell companies funnel NVIDIA’s latest chips into China under various names and pretexts—though the exact scale remains unknown.