ALIBABA, the Chinese tech giant, cannot buy advanced chip designs after the UK's Arm Ltd determined that the US and Britan would not approve licences to export the technology to China, reports London's Financial Times.
The Cambridge company concluded that the US and UK would not approve the sale of its latest Neoverse V series because the performance was too high. The move impacts Alibaba's T-Head chip unit and other Chinese groups.
It is the first known time that Arm, owned by Japanese tech investor SoftBank, has decided it could not export its most cutting-edge designs to China.
Neoverse V falls under Wassenaar - a multilateral arrangement involving 42 nations designed to stop dual-use technology from being diverted for military use - but Arm would need US and UK export licences to sell the technology.
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The Cambridge company concluded that the US and UK would not approve the sale of its latest Neoverse V series because the performance was too high. The move impacts Alibaba's T-Head chip unit and other Chinese groups.
It is the first known time that Arm, owned by Japanese tech investor SoftBank, has decided it could not export its most cutting-edge designs to China.
Neoverse V falls under Wassenaar - a multilateral arrangement involving 42 nations designed to stop dual-use technology from being diverted for military use - but Arm would need US and UK export licences to sell the technology.
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