作者：Stephen Nellis
2026年3月24日 美国东部时间下午6:07 | 更新于1小时前
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旧金山，3月24日（路透社）——两名美国参议员已要求美国商务部部长霍华德·卢特尼克（Howard Lutnick）调查英伟达（NVDA.O）CEO黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）的言论是否可能误导了美国官员，并影响了美国政府向英伟达发放向中国运送AI芯片许可证的决定。
周一，来自参议院银行委员会成员的伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）和吉姆·班克斯（Jim Banks）参议员发出的这封信，是在司法部上周指控三名与英伟达客户超微电脑（SMCI.O）相关的男子（其中一人是上周在英伟达会议上被拍到与黄仁勋同框的公司联合创始人）涉嫌走私价值数十亿美元的AI服务器到中国之后发出的。
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在信中，沃伦和班克斯引用了黄仁勋在2025年争取向中国出口芯片许可证期间对记者发表的两项言论。其中一次黄仁勋称：“没有任何证据表明AI芯片被转售。这些是大型系统。Grace Blackwell系统几乎重达两吨，短期内不可能被塞进你的口袋或背包。”
议员们还引用了黄仁勋的另一组言论：“重要的是，我们销售的国家和公司要认识到转售是不被允许的，而且所有人都希望继续购买英伟达技术。因此他们会非常谨慎地进行自我监管。”
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参议员们还指出，在黄仁勋发表上述言论之前，媒体就已报道了对向中国非法运送AI芯片的潜在调查。
“事后看来，这些言论不仅是错误的，”议员们在信中写道，“而且与当时已有的报道相矛盾，甚至可能误导了美国官员。”
参议员们要求卢特尼克“确定英伟达管理层向联邦官员和公众就‘芯片未被转售’所做的陈述、声明或证明是否存在实质性虚假或误导性，并查明这些陈述、声明或证明是否以需要进一步调查或移交的方式影响了许可决定。”
英伟达发言人在一份声明中表示：“严格合规是公司的首要任务。”
“政府批评者无意中帮助了实体名单上的外国竞争对手——美国应该始终希望本国产业参与经过审核和批准的商业竞争，为美国民众创造真正的就业机会。”
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March 24, 2026 6:07 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 24 (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators have asked U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate whether remarks by Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab CEO Jensen Huang may have misled U.S. officials and influenced their decision to grant Nvidia licenses to send its AI chips to China.
The letter, opens new tab on Monday from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jim Banks, both members of the Senate Banking Committee, comes after the Justice Department last week charged three men tied to Nvidia customer Super Micro Computer(SMCI.O), opens new tab, including one of the company’s co-founders who was photographed near Huang at an Nvidia conference last week, with smuggling billions of dollars worth of AI servers into China.
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In their letter, Warren and Banks cited two remarks that Huang made to reporters in 2025, as Nvidia was working to secure export licenses to send chips to China. In one remark, Huang said: “There’s no evidence of any AI chip diversion. These are massive systems. The Grace Blackwell system is nearly two tons, and so you’re not going to be putting that in your pocket or your backpack anytime soon.”
In another set of remarks cited by the lawmakers, Huang said: “The important thing is that the countries and the companies that we sell to recognize that diversion is not allowed and everybody would like to continue to buy Nvidia technology. And so they monitor themselves very carefully.”
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In their letter, Warren and Banks cited media reports out before Huang’s remarks focused on probes into potential illegal shipments of AI chips to China.
“Those statements were not simply wrong in hindsight,” the lawmakers wrote of Huang’s remarks. “They were contradicted by reporting available at the time and potentially misled U.S. officials.”
The senators asked Lutnick to “determine whether representations, statements, or certifications made by Nvidia’s leadership to federal officials and to the public regarding the absence of chip diversion were materially false or misleading, and whether those representations, statements, or certifications influenced licensing decisions in a way that warrants further investigation or referral.”
In a statement, an Nvidia spokesperson said that “strict compliance is a top priority” for the company.
“The administration’s critics are unintentionally promoting the interests of foreign competitors on U.S. entity lists – America should always want its industry to compete for vetted and approved commercial business, supporting real jobs for real Americans.”
Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Andrea Ricci
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