Rene Haas, CEO of Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM), has voiced doubts over the feasibility of the U.S. imposing restrictions on the export of AI CPU chips to China.
In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, Haas expressed that it would be a significant challenge to halt the export of CPUs to China. He said restricting these CPUs is particularly challenging because they are widely deployed across a range of applications. Their broad adoption and the difficulty of identifying whether they are being used for AI workloads make targeted controls hard to enforce.
According to Haas, the difficulty of setting specific performance thresholds and memory bandwidth limits, unlike Nvidia‘s (NASDAQ:NVDA) graphics processing units makes banning AI CPUs export nearly impossible.
“They would have to limit everything,” Haas said, implying that while the U.S. could try, it would be a tougher area to regulate than AI chips.
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