- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 10
- Latest action
- Dec 4, 2025
What it does
The SAFE Chips Act of 2025 would amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to prohibit the issuance of licenses for exporting, reexporting, or transferring advanced integrated circuits to or within foreign adversary countries, including entities headquartered there, effectively banning such transfers. It defines advanced integrated circuits using specific technical benchmarks related to processing performance, memory bandwidth, and interconnect capacity, with provisions allowing the Secretary of Commerce to update these parameters after congressional briefings. The ban does not apply to circuits not designed or marketed for data centers, and it explicitly includes Macau and Hong Kong as…
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