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.”  This was the first time