SAFE Chips Act of 2025

The SAFE Chips Act would amend federal export control law to prohibit the issuance of licenses for exporting advanced artificial intelligence chips to countries designated as foreign adversaries, including China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The bill would lock in current Trump Administration export restrictions on high-performance semiconductors for at least 30 months, after which the executive branch could update the technical standards with congressional notification. The legislation aims to prevent advanced computing technology from supporting military development in adversary nations while maintaining U.S. technological leadership in artificial intelligence. If enacted, the bill would restrict companies like Nvidia and AMD to selling only lower-performance chip models to these countries during the 30-month period. The measure is bipartisan and currently under consideration by the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.