U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican Ranking Member McCaul and Senator Cotton 13 letter to the Department of Commerce, requiring U.S. companies to obtain permission to sell chip manufacturing equipment to Chinese companies. The outside world believes that this will be a variation of Huawei’s sales restriction.
Comprehensive previous reports, the Department of Commerce announced last year, the sale to Huawei in foreign countries using U.S. chip manufacturing equipment to produce semiconductors must first obtain a license, thereby expanding the scale of the Huawei chip sales restriction; has also added three Chinese companies, four institutions, a total of seven entities included in the entity list (Entity List), to avoid China using U.S. chips to gain an advantage in the development of military weapons.
According to Reuters 15, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-Texas) said in a letter to Commerce Secretary Raimondo (Gina Raimondo) that U.S. companies must obtain permission to sell chip technology manufactured overseas using U.S. technology, which should apply to all Chinese companies that design 14-nanometer (or The letter was sent on the 13th and the 15th.
The letter, which was mailed on the 13th and made public on the 15th, urges the U.S. government to implement restrictions on the sale of chip manufacturing equipment (EDA) and other related actions, saying these actions will “ensure that the United States and companies from partner countries and allies are not allowed to sell the ‘noose that strangles us’ to the (Chinese) Communist Party. ” A Commerce Department official has acknowledged receipt of the letter and said the Commerce Department will continue to review the situation to determine whether it needs to implement what the lawmakers requested in their letter.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-UT), a Republican hawk. Photo: Retrieved from the official U.S. Navy Twitter feed
Recent Comments