Arm CEO Rene Haas responds to questions at the All-In Summit about whether Arm will build custom AI hardware that competes directly with chipmakers like Nvidia.
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Haas: Physical AI chip market will surpass data center volume
“Yeah, I think so because I think they're gonna, today, they largely use repurposed automotive chips, right? Things that have functional safety compliance around ADAS, but they're not specific for actuators or specific for smaller parts of the joint. So, physic…”
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Haas: TSMC's compounding manufacturing advantage makes catching up nearly impossible
“Once you fall behind in chips, it's very, very difficult to catch up because the cycle gets on top of you. TSMC now has the best fabs in the world. The leading edge companies, Apple, Nvidia, AMD, they all build a TSMC. TSMC gets better at what they're building…”
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Haas: Rare earth supply bottleneck is refining capacity, not raw minerals
“The access for the minerals are global. There's no issue in getting access to materials. The issue is in the refinement and actually building the factories that can refine the materials.”
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Haas: US has lost muscle memory for 24/7 semiconductor manufacturing
“TSMC is a twenty-four-seven operation where if a line goes down or a customer's got a problem, not only are the technicians need to be ready to go, the engineers need to be ready to go, and that is something that, ah, I think we've lost the muscle memory insid…”
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Haas: Restricting chip access will force foreign nations to build parallel ecosystems
“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, a…”
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Haas: Intel competition drove Nvidia's early pivot to Arm architecture
“That was the genesis of starting to pivot to ARM in a very big way inside NVIDIA, because at that time, Jensen looked at what was going on with SoCs and ARM-based architecture and moved everybody on to the SoC program.”