Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas has said the United States would find it difficult to block exports to China of central processing units, or CPUs, that can support artificial intelligence workloads.
CPUs are general-purpose chips used in a wide range of computers and devices. Unlike more specialized graphics chips, they are harder to restrict based on AI-related use cases alone, Haas said in a Reuters interview.
“They would have to limit everything,” he said.
Haas said that setting clear performance and memory thresholds for CPUs is far more complicated than for graphics processing units, or GPUs, such as those made by Nvidia….
Arm CEO Warns US Can’t Easily Ban AI CPU Exports to China
