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The US Commerce Department on Monday unveiled a comprehensive package of export controls designed to weaken China’s domestic semiconductor ecosystem and undermine the country’s manufacturing capabilities. advanced chips at the local level. The new regulations deny China access to 24 types of chip-making equipment and three software programs, and also impose restrictions on China’s sales of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, an advanced type of 3D-motion computer memory component often used in customized AI chips.
“They are the strongest controls ever put in place by the US to undermine the PRC’s ability to build the most advanced chips they use to modernize their military,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters.The measures are likely to anger Beijing. which gave tens of billions of dollars Subsidies and tax breaks to semiconductor companies in hopes of building their own chip industry.
Over the past decade, the U.S. has grown increasingly concerned that China could use cutting-edge computer chips to create AI-powered military weapons or other technologies that threaten the U.S. and its allies focused its efforts to prevent China from acquiring high-end semiconductors made by companies such as Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC).
But China has proven capable of producing high-end chips on its own, so the U.S. has turned its attention to components and equipment that Chinese companies such as Huawei make. still rely on The measures announced today are the most far-reaching part of that strategy so far. LARRY previously reported The Biden administration has been working on the provisions, which are the result of months of negotiations with US allies and industry partners.
In response to the expected measures, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning last week accused the United States of “extending the concept of national security” and using export controls to suppress China economic and trade order and the stability of global industrial and supply chains,” Mao said. press conference.
One of the most significant changes introduced is an update to the Foreign Direct Product Rule (FDP), a relatively obscure trade regulation that covers products made in other countries with U.S. technology, software or components. that have more than 25 percent U.S. components. That threshold is now being lifted, meaning that if any U.S. technology was used to make, say, a lithography tool In the Netherlands or a memory component in South Korea, it will be subject to US export controls.
