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China Receives US Equipment To Make Advanced Chips Despite New Rules (reuters.com) 32

Posted by BeauHD from the would-you-look-at-that dept.
schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Chinese companies are buying up U.S. chipmaking equipment to make advanced semiconductors, despite a raft of new export curbs aimed at thwarting advances in the country's semiconductor industry, a report said on Tuesday. The 741 page annual report, released by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, takes aim at the Biden administration's Oct. 2022 export curbs, which seek to bar Chinese chipmakers from getting U.S. chipmaking tools if they would be used to manufacture advanced chips at the 14 nanometer node or below. With the Commerce Department using the 14 nanometer restriction limit, 'importers are often able to purchase the equipment if they claim it is being used on an older production line, and with limited capacity for end-use inspections, it is difficult to verify the equipment is not being used to produce more advanced chips,' the report stated.

According to the document, between January and August 2023, China imported $3.2 billion (RMB 23.5 billion) worth of semiconductor manufacturing machines from the Netherlands, a 96.1% increase over the $1.7 billion (RMB 12 billion) recorded over the same period in 2022. China's imports of semiconductor equipment from all countries totaled $13.8 billion (RMB 100 billion) over the first eight months of 2023, it added. The report does not outline a specific recommendation to address the gaps in the U.S. rules, but urges Congress to request an annual evaluation, to be completed within 6 months by the General Accountability Office and later made public, of the effectiveness of export controls on chipmaking equipment to China.
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  • Americans will sell \ do anything to make a $ including sanctions busting,

    • All of them, or most of them, or some of them?

    • Re:Not suprising AMerican Corps will find a way (Score:4)

      by ShanghaiBill ( 739463 ) on Thursday November 16, 2023 @08:18AM (#64009383)

      Americans will sell \ do anything to make a $ including sanctions busting,

      "The Capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them." -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin

    • Americans will sell \ do anything to make a $ including sanctions busting,

      It was not American Megacorps that found a loophole. It was the Biden Administration that created the loophole. It was the administration that said we can take their word it will only be used for old chips. It was the administration that said we don't really need to followup and see how these machines are used.

      Same thing for tax loopholes, Congress created them not corps.

      • Congress creating them is the same as big business creating them
        Prolly was the only way to get it to pass.

        Make it look like they are doing something, when in fact, they are not.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by drnb ( 2434720 )
          Gov't bureaucrats and politicians can have agenda's and beliefs that transcend the desires of corporations. This is likely one of those cases.

  • Western Nations First (Score:5, Interesting)

    by nevermindme ( 912672 ) on Thursday November 16, 2023 @08:43AM (#64009399)
    The big item has been covered, the newer process will be deployed to the newer foundries in US, Canada, Mexico, UK and the EU. If the equipment buyer, the foundry, is not first in line they will run to their local export control politician and raise holy hell. 4 years ago the first market for equipment was china, now it has been kicked down to less than vietnam, india. Environmental regulations are now not stopping foundries from going smalless process first in western nations. What western state water regulators have found out it takes much more water to make a ton of almonds than a pound of silicon wafers. The almonds go for $6700, the pound of wafers go for a cool 6 million. Team of almond pickers pay nearly zero in income taxes, the people who work in foundries pay insane amounts of taxes. Western US states are finally spending more money encouraging chip foundries than playing water games with almond farmers, only took a global trade meltdown to change the world.

  • The EU is not an ally (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    We need to stop treating the EU as a ally. They are not.

    China imported $3.2 billion (RMB 23.5 billion) worth of semiconductor manufacturing machines from the Netherlands, a 96.1% increase over the $1.7 billion (RMB 12 billion) recorded over the same period in 2022.

    Its exactly like sanctioning Russia - After knowingly continuing to prop up the Russia economy for more than a decade after any investigate of democracy and rule of law had disappeared they still continue buying Russian fuel stuffs and limiting the implementation sanctions while Ukraine is under attack, the world EU included then expects us to fund the counter offensive for their security.

    Only for them to turn around and try cash grab from American te

    • We need to stop treating the EU as a ally. They are not.

      Reminds me of the tag-line of "The Friends of Eddie Coyle":
        " It's a grubby, violent, dangerous world. But it's the only world we know. And they're the only friends America has."

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by noodler ( 724788 )

      Fuck you. The us did about 700 billion worth of trade with china (https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china) in 2022.
      Fuck your hypocritical paranoia ass.

  • Not all "semiconductor manufacturing machines" are banned and the article doesn't say if all, some or none of those exports are from the banned list.

  • If that mushhead had not gutted the protections against technology moving outside the US with that one world trading hogwash, we would not be in this situation.

    All hail the democrats for once more showing how little difference there is between either major party.

    • Both sides suffer from severe corporate capture.

      There is still an unfathomable difference between the dems and the reichwing traitors though.

  • Would not imagine it would take much to permanently damage the machines.

    We are already at war with china, may as well get some sabotage in.

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