… 121 Following United States Department of Commerce regulations which placed an embargo on exports to China of advanced microchips, which went into effect in October 2022, Nvidia saw its data center chip added to the export control list. …
… 123 On August 7, 2025, President Donald Trump called for Tan's removal as CEO due to his China connections. 124 Tan was CEO of Cadence Design Systems when it unlawfully exported chips to China between 2015 and 2021, 124 and this drew criticism from Tom Cotton , a U.S. senator from Arkansas. …