SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA ) CEO Jensen Huang

discussed concerns about Huawei Technologies Co.'s growing

artificial intelligence capabilities with U.S. lawmakers,

according to a senior congressional committee staff source.

The issues were raised during a closed-door meeting between

Nvidia ( NVDA ) executives and the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign

Affairs Committee on Thursday. Among the topics discussed were

Huawei's artificial intelligence chips and how restrictions on

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) chips in China could make Huawei's chips more

competitive.

"If DeepSeek R1 had been trained on (Huawei chips) or a

future open-source Chinese model had been trained to be highly

optimized to Huawei chips, that would risk creating a global

market demand for Huawei chips," the senior staff source said.

In a statement, Nvidia ( NVDA ) spokesperson John Rizzo said "Jensen

met with the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss the

strategic importance of AI as national infrastructure and the

need to invest in U.S. manufacturing. He reaffirmed Nvidia's ( NVDA )

full support for the government's efforts to promote American

technology and interests around the world."

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) chips, which are central to developing

chatbots, image generators and other AI systems, have been the

target of U.S. export controls since the first administration of

President Donald Trump. Nvidia ( NVDA ) has responded by designing chips

for the Chinese market that have complied with the changing

rules.

Last month, however, the company said

it had been asked by the Trump administration

to stop selling its most recent China offering, a chip

called the H20. Chinese customers had been ramping up orders for

those chips thanks to low-cost AI models such those from

DeepSeek.

Huawei has stepped in to fill the gap left by Nvidia ( NVDA ) in

China,

Reuters reported last month

, by preparing for mass shipments of a chip designed to

compete against Nvidia's ( NVDA ) offerings.