U.S. lawmakers urge Biden administration to tighten AI chip export rules

SAN FRANCISCO: Two U.S. lawmakers who head a committee focused on China on Friday urged the Biden administration to tighten export restrictions on artificial intelligence chips in the wake of industry lobbying to leave the rules unchanged.

Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican and chair of the House of Representatives select committee on China, and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat and ranking member of the committee, in a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo called to “further strengthen” a sweeping set of export control rules implemented last October that cut off China’s access to top AI chips made by U.S. firms such as Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.