Marco Rubio

“ However, companies are hard at work to weaken and circumvent the rule’s export controls. Nvidia, for example, is creating downgraded versions of its products for the Chinese market to skirt the rule. [4] While these lower-performance chips increase the time and expense for Chinese end users to perform tasks, they are still an improvement over Chinese-produced alternatives, allowing those end users to continue work in advanced fields that threaten our national security, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) . ”

“ Chinese firms are reportedly bundling lower-performance chips and finding other workarounds to generate the computing power necessary for their work. Other companies, such as Korean chipmaker Samsung, have lobbied for and won special, one-year exemptions from the export controls, allowing business as usual at production facilities in China. [5]
Industry executives believe that these export controls are an annoyance and not a longterm problem for Chinese technology champions. Chinese chipmakers have found similar ways around the rule. ”

“ ChangXin Memory Technologies, for example, is proceeding with a major expansion after confirming it can purchase American chipmaking equipment used for less-sophisticated products. [6]
The BIS rule needs to be strengthened, finalized, and vigorously enforced. ”