Haas: Restricting chip access will force foreign nations to build parallel ecosystems
Rene Haas · Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War · Sep 30, 2025 · at 20:57
Arm CEO Rene Haas addresses US semiconductor export controls during the All-In Summit.
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“If you shut off supply of a computing architecture into other parts of the world, what will happen? Certain parts of the world that have the capabilities, either in terms of people, technology innovation, they will find a way and they will find a way around, around the problem. And once that happens, you've now created two parallel universes and then the U S and the West would be at risk of that other ecosystem being an ecosystem of choice.”
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