There are signs that policymakers are beginning to internalize this logic. Moolenaar’s SCALE Act, introduced this week, still uses the rolling technical threshold framework but has shifted away from his earlier proposal to cap China’s aggregate compute at 10% of US capacity, which was the more aggregate-focused approach. Instead, it would permit exports only up to 110% of the performance of the best chips China can already manufacture domestically at scale, pegging the threshold to Chinese domestic capability rather than total compute. It is a narrower, more observable target, and it takes the quality-over-quantity insight more seriously than the aggregate headcount approach did.