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Key Republican urges US to block advanced chips to China
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Hongyang Jia/Princeton University.
Key facts
- John Moolenaar wants a rolling technical threshold to cap China's AI compute at 10% of US capacity, with bipartisan Senate legislation close behind
- The target is to keep China’s aggregate AI computing power at no more than 10% of total US AI compute capacity
- Banks and Democratic Senator Andy Kim also separately urged stricter oversight of contract manufacturers, singling out firms like TSMC, which fabricate chips on behalf of US designers but operate
- On the Senate side, Senators Jim Banks of Indiana and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska are adding legislative muscle to the effort
Summary
John Moolenaar wants a rolling technical threshold to cap China's AI compute at 10% of US capacity, with bipartisan Senate legislation close behind. The United States’ most prominent congressional watchdog on China wants Washington to stop treating semiconductor export policy like a leaky faucet. The centerpiece of his proposal is something called a “rolling technical threshold,” or RTT. By tying the threshold to China’s own production capabilities, the proposal tries to make the ceiling a moving target rather than a fixed line that China can eventually cross through its own manufacturing progress. On the Senate side, Senators Jim Banks of Indiana and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska are adding legislative muscle to the effort.