Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during her interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," broadcast Sunday evening. Screenshot: CBS News/"60 Minutes""If you think about national security today in 2024, it's not just tanks and missiles; it's technology. It's"Every drone, every missile, every tank has semiconductors in them," she said.
Raimondo said U.S. export controls had hurt the ability of Putin's forces to conduct the war noted she'd heard of "Russians taking semiconductors out of refrigerators, out of dishwashers."Stahl noted that Chinese officials had warned the Commerce Department's ban prohibiting any company in the world from selling products with U.S.-designed chips in them to Russia "could trigger an escalating trade war.
The Biden administration has been expanding its efforts to keep highly advanced chips out of China, and thus keep Chinese AI firms behind the curve.Share on linkedin