“We advocate for tightening semiconductor export restrictions so as to ensure America and its allies can capitalize on the opportunities of powerful AI systems, and to prevent our adversaries from accessing the AI infrastructure that enables powerful AI. This includes controlling H20 chips, requiring government-to-government agreements for countries hosting large chip deployments, and reducing no-license-required thresholds.”
Wants more rulesUS · FederalActive
Tighten chip export controls and smuggling enforcement
Maintain and enforce controls on advanced AI chips, location verification, end-use checks, no relaxation for strategic markets, on the theory that compute is the governable input.
Where it stands
Contested and net-loosened as of July 2026: the AI Diffusion Rule was rescinded before taking effect and China sales of H20 then H200-class chips were permitted with conditions, while BIS tightened diversion enforcement guidance (Huawei Ascend) and a successor diffusion rule remains unissued. The Chip Security Act (location verification) advanced 42-0 in House Foreign Affairs (Mar 2026) over NVIDIA and ITI opposition. Anthropic and national-security advocates press to strengthen; NVIDIA, Microsoft, and ITI pressed to weaken.
first seen 2025-01-13 · last seen 2026-03-26 · locus: state
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The vehicles it rode
- 2025-01-15
BIS issues Framework for AI Diffusion interim final rule (three-tier global licensing; compliance due May 15, 2025)
AI Diffusion Rule - 2025-05-13
Commerce announces rescission of the AI Diffusion Rule and issues guidance on PRC chip risks and diversion prevention
AI Diffusion Rule - 2025-05-13
Chip Security Act introduced (location verification); S. 1705 and H.R. 3447
Chip Security Act - 2025-07-14
Administration signals it will grant licenses for NVIDIA H20 exports to China, reversing the April 2025 restriction
- 2025-07-23
Action Plan backs export-control enforcement incl. location verification
AI Action Plan - 2026-01-13
Commerce codifies conditional rule permitting NVIDIA H200-class exports to China following the President's December 2025 announcement
- 2026-03-26
House Foreign Affairs Committee orders H.R.3447 reported (as substitute) by 42-0
Chip Security Act
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The record
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Against · 5
“In its last days in office, the Biden Administration seeks to undermine America’s leadership with a 200+ page regulatory morass, drafted in secret and without proper legislative review. This sweeping overreach would impose bureaucratic control over how America’s leading semiconductors, computers, systems and even software are designed and marketed globally.”
“Make it simpler. Stop relegating American friends and allies into a second tier that undermines their confidence in ongoing access to American products. Eliminate the quantitative caps that would interfere with a well-functioning economic market. And keep what matters most, such as the qualitative security standards and AI use restrictions that protect national security.”
“We encourage the Trump Administration, and BIS in particular, to withdraw the Interim Final Rule (IFR) on a Framework for AI Diffusion and open a new, deliberative rulemaking process with stakeholders to protect national security without undermining U.S. companies’ of all sizes ability to compete globally.”
“Embedding backdoors and kill switches into chips would be a gift to hackers and hostile actors. It would undermine global digital infrastructure and fracture trust in U.S. technology.”
“a government chip tracking mandate would create the impression of deepening U.S. government control over the American AI stack, fueling questions about the security, reliability, and privacy of U.S. technology and pushing the very countries that should be core customers of U.S. providers toward alternatives”