now banned from purchasing

In January 2025, the Biden administration, during its final week in office, introduced an interim final rule (IFR), Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion, ostensibly to close loopholes the administration argued had allowed China to acquire AI chips through third-party nations. The new IFR created country- and company-specific restrictions on access to top-tier semiconductors. Under this policy, Chinese firms are now banned from purchasing advanced AI chips without a US Commerce Department license. To prevent backdoor access, the United States implemented a tiered country system, which ostensibly allowed unrestricted AI chip exports to close allies—though companies are banned from offshoring their compute power above a certain percentage สล็อต เว็บตรง