Malaysia's July export license mandate for shipments of U.S.-origin advanced AI semiconductors could be a precursor to the U.S. carving out Malaysia from upcoming rules on advanced chip exports, a former Bureau of Industry and Security official said.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged the Bureau of Industry and Security on Aug. 11 to “move quickly” to remove its export controls on Syria to help the country recover from a 14-year civil war.
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Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Tom Kean, R-N.J., reintroduced a bill Aug. 8 that would authorize $100 million over four years to upgrade the Bureau of Industry and Security’s aging information technology systems.
Pacific Biosciences of California, an American biotechnology firm, said it recently informed the Bureau of Industry and Security about possible export violations involving China.
Semiconductor companies Nvidia and AMD are expected to pay the U.S. government a portion of the profits they earn from selling certain controlled chips to China, an arrangement that has sparked concerns and questions among exporters, lawmakers and former government officials.
U.S. export controls have so far helped American chip companies maintain technological dominance over Chinese ones, a technology policy expert said this week, which suggests the Trump administration should rethink its decision to allow sales of H20 chips to China (see 2507150013).
The Bureau of Industry and Security has named Robby Saunders, a former senior adviser with both BIS and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., the agency's new deputy assistant secretary for technology security. Saunders was the former vice president of national security at the Coalition for Prosperous America before joining Scott's staff in 2023 and BIS in March, according to her LinkedIn. She replaces longtime senior BIS official Eric Longnecker (see 2505050005),
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The U.S. last week arrested and accused two Chinese nationals of using a California-based company to illegally export tens of millions of dollars' worth of advanced AI semiconductors to China, including by first transshipping the chips through Malaysia and Singapore.