The most straightforward way to enforce/ensure a pause would be to shut down the flow of high end chips from TSMC (and then competitors). But it seems very unlikely we’d get China to comply voluntarily, and would be basically the opposite of current policy with the chips act. So taking that route would entail reversing the chips act, going far more extreme on blocking china’s chip supply chain, and perhaps even provoking a foundry-targeting war with china.
Any sort of software pause seems much harder to actually enact/enforce.
The real question is of course—at what cost?
The most straightforward way to enforce/ensure a pause would be to shut down the flow of high end chips from TSMC (and then competitors). But it seems very unlikely we’d get China to comply voluntarily, and would be basically the opposite of current policy with the chips act. So taking that route would entail reversing the chips act, going far more extreme on blocking china’s chip supply chain, and perhaps even provoking a foundry-targeting war with china.
Any sort of software pause seems much harder to actually enact/enforce.