two us lawmakers who head a committee focused on china urged the biden administration to tighten export restrictions on artificial intelligence chips in the wake of industry lobbying to leave the rules unchangedrepresentative mike gallagher a republican and chair of the house of representatives select committee on china and representative raja krishnamoorthi a democrat and ranking member of the committee in a letter to commerce secretary gina raimondo called to further strengthen a sweeping set of export control rules implemented last october that cut off chinas access to top ai chips made by us firms such as nvidia advanced micro devices and intelread alsous chipmaker amd will invest 400 million in india by 2028 to build its largest design centre in bengaluruus chipmaker amd has announced it will invest around 400m in india over the next five years to create its largest design center in bengaluru scheduled to open by the end of this year the 500000squarefoot campus is expected to create 3000 new engineering roles with this investment amd plansthe letter urges us officials to take an even stricter approach than one reuters reported last month that they are consideringthe october 2022 rules impose two performance caps on exporting ai chips to china one on how fast the chips can talk to one another and the second on the chips processing speedsafter the rules took effect nvidia created special chips for china with lower interconnect speeds intel this month also said it has created an ai chip that can be sold in chinabut nvidias chips still have high enough processing speeds to be useful in creating ai systems and reuters reported in may that the us export controls have done little to slow the progress of chinas ai sectorlast month reuters reported that us officials were considering tightening the rules by focusing on processing speeds alone which could affect nvidias chips nvidia at the time said that restricting sales of its ai chips to china would result in a permanent loss of opportunities for the us industrythe potential tightening of the rules set off a flurry of lobbying activity with the chief executives of nvidia intel and qualcomm traveling to washington last week to meet with administration officials to discuss china policy the same day as the visit the semiconductor industry association a usbased industry group urged the biden administration to allow the the industry to have continued access to the china market the worlds largest commercial market for commodity semiconductorsgallagher and krishnamoorthi urged an even tighter approach than the one reuters previously reported officials are considering the lawmakers letter recommended keeping a speed limit on how fast chips can talk to one another and said it should be lowered sufficiently to prevent clever engineering that bypasses the regulationsthe lawmakers also urged administration officials to closely consider how to cut off chinese firms access to advanced computing chips in the cloud where major us firms such as amazoncom microsoft and alphabets google offer the chips for rent as