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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley and beyond. This is Bloomberg Technology with Caroline

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Speaker 2: Like from San Francisco. This is Bloomberg Technology. Tighter chip controls.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg reports the US is reviewing caps on AI chip

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Speaker 2: sales to the Middle East.

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Speaker 3: From companies like in Nvidia.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Dell says it's ready to ship servers with Nvideo's

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Speaker 2: Blackwell AI accelerators, a sign production of the chips back

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Speaker 3: We speak to a key executive, and.

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Speaker 2: Days after Tesla wild crows with its Optimus AI robops,

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Speaker 2: we now know they were remotely operated by humans.

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Speaker 3: After all. We start with news that could have a.

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Speaker 2: Major impact USAI chip manufacturers, including in Nvidia. Sources tell

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Speaker 2: bloom News that the Biden administration and officials have discussed

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Speaker 2: capping sales of advanced AI chips to certain countries. The

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Speaker 2: sources and officials are specifically focused on Persian Gulf countries

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Speaker 2: that have shown a growing interest in AI data centers.

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Speaker 3: Looking at the.

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Speaker 2: Markets, these are the names that are impacted in VideA,

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Speaker 2: AMD Intel. It's worth noting in that reaction that a

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Speaker 2: part of the declines that if you're just joining US,

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Speaker 2: have accelerated in the last thirty minutes is a really

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Speaker 2: ugly earning sprint from ASML, which we'll get to momentarily.

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Speaker 2: Bloombergs Ian King joins US in San Francisco. Okay, So

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Speaker 2: the US is looking at some of these Middle East

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Speaker 2: behind AI. Previously US officials were looking at China and

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Speaker 2: capping export of AI chips to them. What do we

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Speaker 2: know about this latest initiative about blocking access to the accelerators.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this is obviously the key choke point,

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Speaker 4: that the one thing that washing can do to really

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Speaker 4: control what happens, who gets what capabilities. The concern is,

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Speaker 4: as you said about China, but what will the Middle

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Speaker 4: East do in terms of allowing access to these capabilities

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Speaker 4: to China as on a remote basis? All kinds of considerations,

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Speaker 4: all kinds of concerns. We've used export controls up until now.

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Speaker 4: Now we're looking at perhaps a more broader blanket approach

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Speaker 2: Some of the big technology sometimes they struggle to understand

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Speaker 2: what it is the US is trying to prevent an

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Speaker 2: AI accelerator is a high performance chip and it goes

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Speaker 2: into a data center. How is it that any government

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Speaker 2: to sell your best thing to any market. That's basically

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Speaker 3: That's exactly it.

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Speaker 4: It's trying to basically place a cap on the capabilities

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Speaker 4: having the ability to develop an advanced AI model, which

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to the breaking news of the last

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Speaker 2: thirty minutes. ASML, which is Europe's most valuable company but

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Speaker 2: has given us earnings and.

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Speaker 3: A pretty ugly forecast.

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Speaker 2: It has cut its gross bookings outlook for fiscal twenty

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Speaker 2: What do we learn through that metric?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, bookings are really the way that a

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Speaker 4: These machines, as we know, are absolutely enormous. They take

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Speaker 2: So ASML makes the machines which manufacture the chips, it

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Speaker 2: What is it that we're learning about the sector as

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Speaker 4: One might be more ASML specific, but in general, chip

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Speaker 2: In the context of extreme ultra violet lithography. Please take

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Speaker 4: For everything advanced? I mean they have basically sixty percent

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Ian King, who leads to making up to coverage

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Speaker 2: at Bloomberg, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 5: I think that history has shown us that the considered

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Speaker 3: In a way unlike anything else.

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Speaker 5: And that's why competition, rather than consolidation or concentration of power,

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Speaker 2: Okay, those are the top news items in tech today.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring in Lisa Ericsson, head of Public Markets Group

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Speaker 2: and then ASML cutting it its gross bookings outlook, what

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Now because for so long it has been the centerpiece

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Speaker 6: Lisa, Well, certainly what's going on in the chip industry

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Speaker 3: To keep an eye on.

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Speaker 2: You know, the reporting on the export controls for them

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Speaker 2: an election where the administration might change I will not

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Speaker 2: ask you to comment on that reporting, but there must

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Speaker 3: How do you approach that.

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Speaker 6: Lisa, Well, the election certainly is a toss up with

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Speaker 6: the pulls and the prediction market so close. And to

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Speaker 6: Well, certainly, if you look at the expectations for third

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Speaker 2: Lisa, what is the one thing that the technology investor

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Speaker 6: Well, certainly again both the ongoing health of the consumering

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Speaker 2: Lisa Erickson had a public markets group at US Bank.

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Speaker 2: Really great to have you on the program, Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much. Let's take a quick look at shares of Apple,

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Speaker 2: which touched an intra day record high in the session.

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Speaker 2: Actually earlier this morning, Apple unveiled a new iPad Mini

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Speaker 2: iPad Mini costs four hundred and ninety nine dollars for

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Speaker 2: For the version that has a cellular connection. It goes

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Speaker 2: on sale October twenty third. Now coming up on the program,

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Speaker 2: Too Good to Be True a major reveal on the

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