EU Tech, Trade Chiefs Push Back on New US AI Chip Controls
The EU is “concerned” about the Bureau of Industry and Security's new export controls on advanced AI chips (see 2501130026), which will impose new restrictions on certain EU member states and their companies, the bloc’s top two technology and trade officials said in a joint statement this week.
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Henna Virkkunen, the EU minister for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, and Maros Sefcovic, commissioner for trade and economic security, said the EU should be able to buy advanced semiconductors from the U.S. “without limitations.” They said they already “cooperate closely, in particular in the field of security, and represent an economic opportunity for the US, not a security risk.”
“We have already shared our concerns with the current US administration and we are looking forward to engaging constructively with the next US administration,” they added. “We are confident that we can find a way to maintain a secure transatlantic supply chain on AI technology and super computers, for the benefit of our companies and citizens on both side of the Atlantic.”