By Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – U.S. export controls on sending superior computing chips to China will not be meant to carry again China’s financial system or technological growth, Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned throughout an interview with National Public Radio on Friday.
Since 2022, U.S. officers have imposed sweeping controls on which computing chips might be exported to China, slicing off some gross sales from Nvidia (NASDAQ:), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:) and Intel (NASDAQ:), amongst others. Those controls adopted earlier bans on transport chips to Huawei Technologies.
But U.S. officers have granted at the very least two U.S. firms – Intel and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:) – licenses to maintain transport chips to Huawei, which is utilizing an Intel chip to energy a brand new laptop computer mannequin. Two Republican lawmakers earlier this week criticized the exemption for Intel, however within the interview with NPR, Blinken highlighted the system as an indication the U.S. was not attempting to hobble China.
“I saw that Huawei just put out a new laptop that it boasted was AI capable, that uses an Intel chip,” Blink advised NPR host Steve Inskeep whereas visiting Beijing. “I think it demonstrates that what we’re focused on is only the most sensitive technology that could pose a threat to our security. We’re not focused on cutting off trade, or for that matter containing or holding back China.”
Intel and Qualcomm’s licenses to promote to Huawei had been granted throughout President Donald Trump’s administration and have remained in place beneath President Joe Biden. Those firms’ direct opponents, AMD and MediaTek, haven’t obtained related exemptions, and neither the Trump nor Biden administrations have defined why.
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