After the U.S. Department of Commerce added China’s largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), to its list of entities, SMIC After determining the “unacceptable risk” that the devices received could be used for military purposes, Reuters Report.
The move comes as U.S. Computer chip companies are allowed to use SMICs without export licenses. Prevents technol from exporting. SMIC Is the latest Chinese company to put on an entity list; The Trump administration added phone maker Huawei to the list in 2019.
According to Wall Street JournalThe Commerce Department wrote in a letter to the computer chip industry on Friday that exporting products to SMIC “poses an unacceptable risk of shifting to military end use in the People’s Republic of China.”
In April, the administration tightened export rules on shipments to China. He claims that he is a U.S. citizen. Wants to stop companies from selling products to help strengthen the Chinese military.
Told SIMC Reuters In a statement, it said it makes semiconductors and provides services “only for commercial end users and end uses”, and that it has “no affiliation with the Chinese military and does not prepare for military end users or end use.”
