# Professor Chris Bakal

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## Timeline

- **2026-09-08**: BBC Big Boss Interview published — Rene Haas tells the BBC that AI will find a cancer cure in our lifetime and predicts humanoid robots within five years, while warning that chip shortages are constraining growth.
- **2026-08**: Arm peaks as most valuable UK company — Arm's share price peaks amid the AI boom, making it in cash terms the most valuable UK-based company in history.
- **2026-04**: Haas steps down from AstraZeneca board — Rene Haas steps down from the board of British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Arm CEO: 5-Year Humanoid Robots, but Chip Shortage Stalls AI Cancer Cure
2026-09-08 04:49:00 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas says AI will solve cancer modelling in our lifetime, but the compute needed to process DNA-marker data is being throttled by data-centre chip shortages. His five-year humanoid robot timeline raises the stakes for AI infrastructure planners.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/arm-ceo-chip-shortage-stalls-ai-cancer-cure

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