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The Biden administration has announced new export restrictions on AI chips, triggering a sell-off in semiconductor stocks. In a blog post made earlier this week, Nvidia (NVDA) called President Biden's new export controls "misguided" as the outgoing administration attempts to limit semiconductor shipments to China.
Moor Insights & Strategy Founder, CEO, and Chief Analyst Patrick Moorhead joins Morning Brief to discuss these regulations, calling them "unprecedented" and their impact on chipmakers as "pretty unclear" at this moment.
Moorhead explains that the ruling applies to chips that are "purpose-built for AI or are designed for AI." He points out that this could affect gaming chips despite their primary intended use.
"You're looking at 120 countries, many of them in the EU [European Union]... that now have limits on that," he states, explaining that a government agency will oversee enforcement. "I can't think of a worse thing for innovation and speed and revenue than having a traffic cop." He maintains this is the "wrong answer" for US national security concerns.
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"A lot of companies aren't going to have an issue because they have nothing to do with... AI clusters, but when you look at companies like Nvidia and AMD (AMD)... and even Intel (INTC), they're going to have to get very clinical on exactly how many chips that they can ship into a certain country," he explains, adding that even the EU has criticized the ruling as "a step in the wrong direction."
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This post was written by Angel Smith