Arm's introduction of its AGI CPU last week was an expected yet, still a milestone event that marked the transformation of Arm from a technology IP licensor into a supplier of standard CPUs competing directly with AMD, Ampere, and Intel. But the surprises did not end there, as the company intends to sell AGI processors to customers in China, despite the fact that Neoverse V3 cores that power the new silicon cannot be licensed to Chinese CPU developers due to sanctions.
"We just do not have any customers today that we are able to talk about publicly," said Rene Haas, chief executive of Arm, in an interview with ChinaDaily. "But we would expect the demand for this product to be just as strong in China as it is in the rest of the world."
