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The chips industry has been furious about the measure, which is in the Senate-passed version of the annual defense policy bill.

Microsoft exec says AI chips draft ‘really positive’

Add cloud giant Microsoft to the list of stakeholders who like what they see in a new draft proposal to give American buyers first dibs on advanced semiconductor chips.

“Based on our initial assessment, [it] would actually be really positive,” Gerry Petrella, general manager of U.S. public policy at Microsoft, said at a conference Friday morning.

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