The U.S. 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 Beating Monitoring, lawmakers from both parties on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee will travel to Silicon Valley next week to meet with representatives from companies including Google, Anthropic, Meta, Tesla, Intel, Applied Materials, and Nvidia to discuss AI and export controls. Both the committee chair, Brian Mast (Republican), and the top Democrat, Gregory Meeks, will participate, and there will be an industry roundtable on May 4.

The background for this trip is that on April 22, the committee passed the MATCH Act (Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware), with a vote of 36 to 8. The bill is an export-control measure targeting China’s chip manufacturing capabilities. The bill has two key provisions: first, a comprehensive ban on exporting DUV lithography machines (deep ultraviolet lithography machines, which are critical equipment for manufacturing mature process chips) to China; second, it lists five companies—SMIC, Changxin Memory, Yangtze Memory, Huahong, and Huawei—and their subsidiaries and factories as restricted entities, with “presumed denial” approval standards applying to export, re-export, repair, and parts supply.

Allied countries have a 150-day window to follow up. If major lithography machine supply countries such as the Netherlands and Japan do not implement equivalent controls within the deadline, the U.S. will unilaterally expand the Foreign Direct Product Rule (FDPR) to bring all foreign-manufactured equipment that uses U.S. software, technology, or components under its jurisdiction. Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA, three U.S. equipment manufacturers, together are projected to earn $19 billion in revenue from China in 2025, making them the most directly affected parties under the bill. The bill still needs to be put to a full vote in the House of Representatives, and a corresponding version is already being advanced in the Senate.