Chips from ARM

The British company ARM has decided to stop supplying the latest technology to China. This was reported by the Financial Times.

According to the newspaper, such a step of the manufacturer is connected with the fact that "the USA and Great Britain will not issue licenses for export of such developments to China" in accordance with the Wassenaar Agreement. In particular, these are the latest high-performance Neoverse V chips. ARM, majority-owned by SoftBank Holding, is "committed to complying with all necessary export regulations", the company said in a statement.

Such a development would adversely affect Alibaba Corporation's T-head semiconductor division as well as other Chinese technology companies, the paper said.

It is worth noting that this is the first known case where ARM has decided that it cannot export its most advanced projects to China, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Biden administration also plans to put Chinese chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies and 35 other Chinese firms on a trade blacklist that would prevent them from buying certain American components, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.

Arm launched its next generation of data centre chips called Neoverse V2 earlier this year to meet the explosive growth of data from 5G and Internet-connected gadgets.

Arm has launched several new core designs over the past year, including Neoverse N2 and Neoverse V1 and V2, the latter of which are the cores with the highest performance to date, according to the report.

Also, in early October, the US restricted access by 28 Chinese technology companies to semiconductor chips made with US technology. The restrictions apply not only to supplies from US companies, but also to exports from any company in the world that uses US semiconductor technology. In November, it was reported that two US senators are actively lobbying for new bans on US government deals with Chinese chipmakers.