Global data centers are filling up with GPUs and Nvidia has so far claimed an estimated 90% of that market share. Highly complex chips like GPUs are largely manufactured in Taiwan, but most of the companies that design them are based in the US and so their products are within the Department of Commerce's jurisdiction.

Just a week to Trump’s inauguration the Biden administration is still making policies. The outgoing administration updated the export rule, which is designed to regulate the flow of AI to “adversaries” like China.

Nvidia blasted the Biden administration for implementing “misguided” rules limiting shipments of AI computer chips – and praised incoming President-elect Donald Trump – in a rare public broadside on Monday.