The US House Foreign Affairs Committee will visit Silicon Valley next week to discuss AI export controls and chip bans with Google, Nvidia, and others.

According to Data Beating monitoring, bipartisan members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee will visit Silicon Valley next week to meet with representatives from companies such as Google, Anthropic, Meta, Tesla, Intel, Applied Materials, Nvidia, etc., to discuss AI and export controls. Committee Chair Brian Mast (Republican) and Democratic Chief Member Gregory Meeks will both participate, with an industry roundtable scheduled for May 4.

The background of this visit is that on April 22, the committee passed the MATCH Act (Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware) by 36 votes to 8, an export control bill targeting China's chip manufacturing capability. The bill has two core provisions: first, a comprehensive ban on exporting DUV lithography machines to China (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography machines, key equipment for mature process chip manufacturing); second, listing SMIC, YMTC, CXMT, HSMC, Huawei, and their subsidiaries and factories as restricted entities, with a "presumption of denial" approval standard for exports, re-exports, maintenance, and spare parts supply.

Allies have a 150-day window to follow suit. If lithography machine supply countries like the Netherlands and Japan do not adopt equivalent controls within the deadline, the U.S. will unilaterally expand the Foreign Direct Product Rule (FDPR), bringing all foreign manufacturing equipment using U.S. software, technology, or components under its jurisdiction. Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA, three U.S. equipment manufacturers, collectively received $19 billion in revenue from China in 2025, making them the most directly impacted by the bill. The bill still needs to be voted on by the full House, with a corresponding version already advancing in the Senate.