By Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – U.S. export controls on sending superior computing chips to China are usually not meant to carry again China’s financial system or technological growth, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated throughout an interview with Nationwide Public Radio on Friday.
Since 2022, U.S. officers have imposed sweeping controls on which computing chips could be exported to China, reducing off some gross sales from Nvidia (NASDAQ:), Superior Micro Gadgets (NASDAQ:) and Intel (NASDAQ:), amongst others. These controls adopted earlier bans on transport chips to Huawei Applied sciences.
However U.S. officers have granted at the least two U.S. corporations – 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 gadget as an indication the U.S. was not attempting to hobble China.
“I noticed that Huawei simply put out a brand new laptop computer that it boasted was AI succesful, that makes use of an Intel chip,” Blink instructed NPR host Steve Inskeep whereas visiting Beijing. “I feel it demonstrates that what we’re targeted on is just probably the most delicate know-how that would pose a risk to our safety. We’re not targeted on reducing off commerce, or for that matter containing or holding again China.”
Intel and Qualcomm’s licenses to promote to Huawei have been granted throughout President Donald Trump’s administration and have remained in place beneath President Joe Biden. These corporations’ direct rivals, AMD and MediaTek, haven’t obtained comparable exemptions, and neither the Trump nor Biden administrations have defined why.
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