Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the case last week for fewer export controls on the company’s chips, saying the U.S. government should allow Nvidia to “compete” in the Chinese market. He also avoided directly answering whether the company’s export license applications for China are being granted, despite the Trump administration announcing earlier this year that it planned to approve exports of Nvidia’s H20 chips in exchange for a cut of the sales revenue (see 2508220003).
China on Sept. 25 added three U.S. companies to its Unreliable Entity List for arms sales to Taiwan and three others to its Export Control List because they “endanger” Chinese national security, the Ministry of Commerce said.
Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Va., and Delegate James Moylan, R-Guam, introduced a bill this month that would require the executive branch to report to Congress annually on China’s semiconductor manufacturing capabilities, including whether U.S. and allied export controls are curbing the development of that equipment.
U.S. export controls on chips are working and should be maintained, not swapped in a trade deal as part of a “grand bargain” between the Trump administration and Beijing (see 2507150013 and 2508010002), said Rush Doshi, former National Security Council official during the Biden administration.
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., urged three government watchdog offices to investigate whether two Trump administration officials had conflicts of interest while advocating for the U.S. to sell advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates.
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., “strongly supports” Senate legislation that would require U.S. manufacturers of advanced AI computing chips to make their products available to American firms before selling them to China, the panel said Sept. 22.
The Trump administration’s easing of export restrictions for certain unmanned drones was an overdue decision that could allow American companies to better compete in foreign markets and boost U.S. cooperation with allies, a defense policy researcher and former Pentagon official said Wednesday. During a Center for Strategic and International Studies webinar, they said the announcement highlights the shortcomings of the multilateral Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), arguing that it and other U.S. arms control policies have failed to keep up with the pace of technology.
Taiwan is probing the business credentials of a Taiwanese company added to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List earlier this month (see 2509120077), Taiwan's International Trade Administration said, according to an unofficial translation. The company, Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics, is a "representative office of a Hong Kong company in Taiwan," and an "investigation revealed that the representative office does not possess import and export qualifications," Taiwan said. "The Ministry of Economic Affairs will further verify whether the representative office's actual operations are consistent with its original application."
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Although there remains a “contentious” debate around how exactly the U.S. should impose export controls on high-end AI chips, White House adviser Jacob Helberg said he believes the Trump administration will find a way to restrict the most sensitive technologies while still making sure the rest of the world relies on AI hardware, software and models exported from the U.S., not from China. Helberg said he expects the administration to provide clearer answers in the coming months.