Export Administration Regulations (EAR) restricting cross-border sales of advanced AI GPUs (H100/B200) and mandating cloud infrastructure customer verification.
Administered by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under 15 CFR Part 744, export controls impose strict interconnect bandwidth and total processing performance (TPP) caps on advanced artificial intelligence semiconductors. To prevent prohibited foreign access via cloud proxying, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers must implement Know-Your-Customer (KYC) identity verification protocols.
