Representative John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, is pushing the Commerce Department to implement stricter controls on AI chip exports to China. His proposal relies on a rolling technical threshold that would automatically adjust restrictions based on China’s domestic production capabilities, aiming to keep China’s AI compute power at a maximum of 10% of US capacity. In the Senate, the bipartisan SAFE Chips Act, introduced by Pete Ricketts and Jim Banks, seeks to codify current export limits to prevent future administrations from loosening them. This legislation responds in part to limited sales approved under the Trump administration, including Nvidia H200 and AMD MI308 chips sold with a 15% revenue-sharing requirement and volume caps.
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