Arm confirms that it cannot export advanced chip designs to China, Ali and other Chinese companies will be affected

Arm has determined that the U.S. and U.K. will not approve licenses to export technology to China, and Alibaba will be unable to buy some of its most advanced chip designs, the Financial Times reported.

According to sources, Arm, a subsidiary of Softbank, determined that the United States and the United Kingdom would not approve the sale of its latest Neoverse V series because the performance was too high. This is the first time SoftBank's Arm has decided not to export its cutting-edge designs to China. This will affect the purchase of advanced chip designs by Alibaba and other Chinese companies.

Arm is considered vulnerable to U.S. export controls against China because Chinese companies, like those in other countries, mostly use Arm's designs to build devices from smartphones to servers.

Rising tensions between the U.S. and China have already forced some Chinese chip companies to consider an open-source alternative to Arm's designs, known as RISC-V. In this regard, Drew Henry, executive vice president of strategy and marketing of Arm, said at a media sharing meeting in Taiwan, China, that in the future, Arm architecture solutions will be provided in accordance with customer needs on the basis of meeting the latest international norms, and that RISC-V will bring Come to healthy competition.