Jensen says Nvidia now has ‘zero percent’ market share in China — says US export policy ‘has already largely backfired’

Jensen says Nvidia now has ‘zero percent’ market share in China — says US export policy ‘has already largely backfired’

By Anton Shilov
Publication Date: 2026-05-03 12:08:00

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company’s market share of AI accelerators in China has now dropped to 0%. The drop is staggering, given that the company owned a lion’s share of China’s AI accelerator market just about two years ago.

“In China, we have now dropped to zero,” said Jensen Huang in an interview with the Special Competitive Studies Project, a bipartisan initiative by American lawmakers aimed at ensuring long-term competitiveness of the U.S. “Conceding an entire market the size of China probably does not make a lot of strategic sense, so I think that has already largely backfired. Maybe it made sense at the time, but I think the policy really needs to be dynamic and needs to stay with the times. I think it would be fairly safe to say that having American chip companies and other companies in China makes a lot of sense.”