The Industry View of U.S. Export Controls: Moving the Goalposts
The Trump and Biden administrations’ efforts to restrict China’s access to chips has led to five years of confusion for companies.
What, exactly, is the current goal of the U.S. government’s export controls on China? Confusion within the tech and manufacturing industry reached a crescendo in mid-December following an interview given by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. In it, Raimondo stressed that the aim of controls on exports of advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) — a key element of any computer — was to “stop China from developing frontier artificial intelligence models.”
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