Senators Seek to Block Nvidia From Selling Top AI Chips to China

Nvidia Corp. would be barred from shipping advanced artificial intelligence chips to China under bipartisan legislation unveiled Thursday in a bid to codify existing US restrictions on exports of advanced semiconductors to the Chinese market.

Known as the Secure and Feasible Exports Act, the bill would order the Commerce Department to halt export licenses for sales of chips to adversaries including China and Russia for at least 30 months. Any processors more powerful than those already approved for export to those nations would be subject to the measure, including chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. ...