The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has proposed a new set of export controls on several emerging technologies, limiting the ability of China and other "adversarial nations" access to advanced computing capabilities. The new export restrictions concern fab tools that can be used to make chips with gate-all-around transistors (GAA FETs), make chips using advanced deposition equipment, equipment necessary to build quantum computers, and tools required to produce sophisticated metal allows.
"Today's action ensures our national export controls keep step with rapidly evolving technologies and are more effective when we work in concert with international partners," said Alan Estevez, Under Secretary for the Bureau of Industry and Security. "Aligning our controls on quantum and other advanced technologies makes it significantly more difficult for our adversaries to develop and deploy these technologies in ways that threaten our collective security."
