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The American -Chinese Parliament Committee asked NVIDIA to explain whether the Chinese company Deepseek has obtained chips controlled by export to the application of artificial intelligence application and how legislators say and pose a threat to national security.

John Molinaar, the Republican president of the committee, and his democratic counterpart, Raja Krishnamothy, on Wednesday wrote to Nafidia For information about its sales to China and Southeast Asia.

The message came after the committee issued a report he said DibsicWhose model was trained on NVIDIA chips, “a deep threat to American national security.

Molinaar said Dibsic was “a weapon in the arsenal of the Communist Party of China, designed to spy on the Americans, steal our technology, and sabotage American law.”

In recent years, the United States has provided sweeping export controls designed to make it difficult for Chinese groups to obtain advanced American technology that can help its army.

Checking the committee increases the pressure on NVIDIA about whether its advanced chips are sold secretly to China, which the company has long said it has been working to avoid.

“I took advantage of the American AI models and reported that it used the advanced NVIDIA chips that could not have ended in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party … for this reason we send a message to NVIDIA to demand answers,” MOOLENAAR Deepseek claimed.

NVIDIA fell on Wednesday strongly against any suggestion that might be responsible for the chips that are controlled by export in the wrong hands, saying that it followed the government’s directives about the place where it could sell or cannot sell chips “to the message.”

“The technology industry supports America when it is exported to well -known companies around the world. If the government feels otherwise, it will direct us,” added Nafidia.

Report It came a day after the United States appeared that the United States imposed export controls on NVIDIA to sell H20 chips to China, and it stumbles on the company, which expected relief from restrictions. In an organizational file, it said that the controls will reduce its profits by $ 5.5 billion in the quarter to April 27.

NVIDIA relies on a complex network of supply chain partners such as Dell and SuperMicro, which fill in their chips on servers and sell them to customers.

Suggestions in the Congress report dealt with the fact that customers in China may reach their export chips through Singapore companies, which represent 18 percent of their financial revenues 2025, or 23.7 billion dollars.

NVIDIA said that the revenues reports from Singapore are based on the bills’ addresses, which means that they often included companies affiliated with American companies. “The associated products are shipped to other sites, including the United States and Taiwan, not to China,” she said.

The Chinese Committee report said that Deepseek transmitted data using the infrastructure that was linked to China Mobile, a major Chinese communications provider that the Pentagon is appointed to have had prayers with the army in the country.

Deepseek also added integrated tracking tools from large Chinese technology groups, including bytedance, the owner of Tiktok, as well as Baidu, Chinese online search engine, and Tencent.

“This tangle with the intention of harvesting Deepseek data with [People’s Republic of China] The report said that companies known for their roles in monitoring and controlling CCP, which increases the risk that foreign discount entities enable access to private information to Americans.

Deepseek did not respond to a request for comment.

The Chinese embassy in Washington said the committee’s allegations are “baseless”, and Beijing opposes “excessive dismantling the concept of national security and politicizing economic, commercial and technological issues.”

“The Chinese government is very important to the privacy of data and security and protects it in accordance with the law. It has never requested, and it will not require companies or individuals to collect or store data illegally,” said the embassy spokesman.

Dibsic caused a defeat in the technology market earlier this year when it announced breakthroughs that seemed to have turned the balance of power in the arms race from artificial intelligence between Washington and Beijing.

In January, NVIDIA had about 600 billion dollars. Market evaluation When investors’ reaction to reports that Deepseek had trained models that were competitive with the latest offers from groups such as Openai on a small part of the cost and the use of much lower computing power.

Deepseek said it trained its “R1” model using groups of NVIDIA H800 chips, which are less powerful copies of the H100 chip. H800 is specially designed for the Chinese market to comply with the US export controls and was later banned by the Joe Biden administration in 2023.