US chip export controls are a 'failure' because they spur Chinese development, Nvidia boss says

US chip exports controls have been a "failure", the head of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, told a tech forum on Wednesday, as the Chinese government separately slammed US warnings to other countries against using Chinese tech. Successive US administrations have imposed restrictions on the sale of hi-tech AI chips to China, in an effort to curb China's military advancement and protect US dominance of the AI industry. But Huang told the Computex tech forum in Taipei that the controls had instead spurred on Chinese developers. "The local companies are very, very talented and very determined, and the export control gave them…