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This bill, known as the SAFE Chips Act of 2025, amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to prohibit the U.S. Secretary from issuing licenses for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of "advanced integrated circuits" to or within countries designated as "foreign adversaries." An "advanced integrated circuit" is broadly defined to include specific types of computer chips classified under certain Export Control Classification Numbers (ECNs) or those meeting certain technical performance thresholds related to processing power, DRAM bandwidth, or interconnect bandwidth, though this definition can be updated by the Secretary after a majority vote of the End-User Review Committee and a briefing to Congress. The bill also specifies that "foreign adversary country" includes those listed in another section of U.S. Code, and notably adds the Macau and Hong Kong Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China to this designation. However, this prohibition does not apply to advanced integrated circuits or products containing them that are not designed or marketed for data centers.

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