The U.S. Department of Commerce issued weekend guidance on May 31 clarifying and tightening enforcement of existing export controls on advanced chips like Nvidia's Blackwell processors to subsidiaries of Chinese companies located outside China. The closure affects a potential loophole that may have allowed hundreds of thousands of chips to be exported over the past year. For financial institutions, this clarifies enforcement scope for export-control exposure assessment but does not materially change Nvidia's ability to ship, as the company was already unable to do so under existing Commerce Department requirements.
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