New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- A group of United States lawmakers has warned that advanced Nvidia chips exported to China are allegedly being used to boost Chinese military capabilities.

In a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), the Select Committee on China alleged that Nvidia's chips are "powering China's military" and called it a security failure on part of the US government.

The 23-member bipartisan committee has written to the Department of Commerce and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick alleging that "there's no such thing as 'purely civilian' artificial intelligence (AI) company in China.

"Nvidia's products were used by DeepSeek AI and ended up supporting an AI model used by the PLA (People's Liberation Army). Military-civi...