SAFE Chips Act of 2025

This bill amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to prohibit the issuance of licenses for exporting, reexporting, or in-country transferring advanced integrated circuits to or in foreign adversaries.

Sec. 2, Control of exports of advanced integrated circuits: The bill adds a new section requiring the Secretary to require a license for exporting, reexporting, or in-country transferring an advanced integrated circuit to or in a foreign adversary country, or to an entity headquartered in such a country, and to deny any such license application. This requirement does not apply to advanced integrated circuits or products containing them that are not designed or marketed for data centers. The term 'advanced integrated circuit' is defined by specific Export Control Classification Numbers or by technical parameters such as total processing performance, performance density, DRAM bandwidth, or interconnect bandwidth. The Secretary may modify these technical parameters after 30 months, subject to a majority vote of the End-User Review Committee and a briefing to congressional committees. 'Foreign adversary country' is defined by reference to a specific U.S. code section and includes Macau and Hong Kong. Terms like 'performance density' and 'total processing performance' are defined as in the Export Administration Regulations.