A new report from JPMorganChase’s Center for Geopolitics examines how U.S.-China competition and trade tensions, including export controls, are affecting third-country companies and their global business strategies.
Nvidia reportedly hasn't agreed to the Trump administration's security conditions for sales of its H200 exports to China, delaying license application approvals for sales to China's ByteDance.
The U.S. can’t rely only on export controls to stay ahead of China technologically, said Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He also said he believes the administration’s willingness to ease export controls on certain advanced chips doesn’t necessarily mean the U.S. is becoming less hawkish against China.
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called on the Trump administration Feb. 1 to cancel plans to sell advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates, saying she's worried that President Donald Trump's personal financial ties to the UAE may have overridden national security concerns about the deal.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has effectively shut down its technical advisory committees without telling most members, quietly ending its involvement in most of the joint industry-government groups that it has used for years to solicit expert feedback on export controls, Export Compliance Daily has learned.
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., urged the Commerce Department to ensure that any H200 AI chips that Nvidia is allowed to sell to China are not used to modernize China’s military.
Beijing has given approval to several of Nvidia's Chinese customers to begin buying the semiconductor firm's H200 chips, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 28. The decision came during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's trip to China, the report said, and more than a month after President Donald Trump said he planned to allow the previously restricted exports (see 2512080059).
Two senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged Congress Jan. 27 to pass legislation to limit exports of advanced chips to China and expedite defense exports to Taiwan.
Brian Rothblatt, a former senior export specialist for the Bureau of Industry and Security, has joined semiconductor manufacturing company Microchip Technology as its manager of global trade compliance, he announced this week on LinkedIn. Rothblatt had worked at BIS since 2020, including at its Western regional office, before his departure in October (see 2510170008).
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bill Jan. 21 that would increase congressional oversight of sales of advanced AI chips to China and other “countries of concern.”