U.S. Department of Commerce expands controls on advanced semiconductors and establishes new controls on closed AI model weights
Description: Exception Low Processing Performance (LPP) authorizes the export and reexport of low amounts of compute that do not present significant national security risks, up to 26,900,000 Total Processing Performance (TPP) of advanced computing ICs per calendar year to any individual ultimate consignee.
The Trump administration has capped limit of Export currently at
1. 1600 GPUs for any entity
2. 40k GPUs for a country
Exception is provided if the entity procuring these would invest in the US as green field deployment