The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is providing guidance to help increase industry's awareness of illegal diversion schemes involving advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and commodities that contain such ICs, which have been subject to BIS export restrictions since October 2022, as updated several times since then. 1 1 Advanced computing ICs and commodities that contain such ICs include Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) 3A090.a, 4A090.a, and .z items in Categories 3, 4, and 5, su ...

5 See § 744.6(b)(6) of the EAR. 1 As an update to previous advisory opinions issued by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the following types of activities may be subject to an export authorization under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), 15 C.F.R. parts 730 - 774. Specifically, BIS has determined that access to advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and commodities subject to the EAR for training AI models has the potential to enable military-intelligence and weapons of mass destruc ...