China Receives US Equipment To Make Advanced Chips Despite New Rules (reuters.com) 32
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.
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.
Not suprising AMerican Corps will find a way (Score:1)
Re: Not suprising AMerican Corps will find a way (Score:2)
They literally can't make the their main products without American tech. There are several critical things in the machines that were developed by the DoD or American companies. They also require a lot of intentional parts, like I think the Germans make the lenses.
It's basically impossible to make anything electronic without American stuff being involved. Patents expire and things become general knowledge, so you could likely make 20+ year old things with 20+ year old techniques and not need to involve the
Administration chose to trust the CCP. (Score:2)
It's basically impossible to make anything electronic without American stuff being involved.
And that is something the CCP is working very hard to change. And that is something the Biden administration facilitated by creating these loopholes in the export restrictions. The administration chose to trust the CCP.
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All of them, or most of them, or some of them?
Corps GIVEN a way, they did not find a way (Score:1)
All of them, or most of them, or some of them?
None of them. The Biden administration wrote the loopholes into the export restriction. The corporations did not find a way, they were given a way.
Re:Not suprising AMerican Corps will find a way (Score:4)
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
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"The Capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them." -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Yeah, how'd that end up again?
It was gov't policy not corps (Score:2)
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.
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Prolly was the only way to get it to pass.
Make it look like they are doing something, when in fact, they are not.
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I hope you and your children die of cancer.
Western Nations First (Score:5, Interesting)
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The CCP are pussycats if you ignore the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and, next up, the Taiwanese. The basic rule of the former alleged president: he corrupts everything he touches.
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The CCP are pussycats if you ignore the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and, next up, the Taiwanese. The basic rule of the former alleged president: he corrupts everything he touches.
LOL Uyghurs.
Tibetans have nothing to complain about. They can now submit the best (and funniest!) government application form in the universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You can get "I heart State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No. 5" T-shirts in China Town in Sydney.
The EU is not an ally (Score:1)
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
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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."
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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.
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/... [slashdot.org]
citation needed (Score:2)
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.
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Stop looking at details - just read the headline and feel the outrage!
Thank you, President Clinton (Score:2)
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.
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Both sides suffer from severe corporate capture.
There is still an unfathomable difference between the dems and the reichwing traitors though.
A little thermite can fix this (Score:2)
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.