News China's SMIC Allegedly Violated U.S. Sanctions Selling Chips to Huawei

[Admin]

SMIC should not have supplied Huawei Kirin 9000s processor, says U.S. lawmaker.

China's SMIC Allegedly Violated U.S. Sanctions Selling Chips to Huawei : Read more

 

[sitehostplus]

Well, now we know how Huawei got their chips.

Buy a bunch, scratch the nameplates off, and call them Huawei chips instead.

 

[usertests]

This is the important part:

US lawmaker calls for ending Huawei, SMIC exports after chip breakthrough

The U.S. Commerce Department should end all technology exports to Huawei and China's top semiconductor firm following the discovery of new chips in Huawei phones that may violate trade restrictions, the chair of the House of Representatives' committee on China said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

The trade restrictions imposed on Huawei and SMIC include the Foreign Direct Product Rule meant to bar any company anywhere in the world from using tools from the United States to manufacture a chip for Huawei.

But suppliers to Huawei and SMIC have received billions of dollars' worth of licenses to sell U.S. technology to the companies despite their being on the trade lists, Reuters has previously reported. About 90% of the licenses were for sales to SMIC.

The sanctions were half-hearted, so of course they didn't work.

It's probably too late to fix this problem, and I wouldn't be surprised if China continued to get these tools through third parties after tougher sanctions are applied. Meanwhile they will develop domestic alternatives in parallel.

They have their sights set on ASML. China will get EUV one way or another eventually, but these SMIC 7/5nm DUV/FinFET nodes are probably good enough for a lot of computing.

Dutch government to screen foreign PhD tech students, denies targeting China

The Netherlands is considering legislation to screen foreign students who plan to study in technical fields for possible security risks, a spokesperson for the Education Ministry said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

 

[DSzymborski]

Let's keep discussion on the topic itself; if you want to fight about the politics, there are other sites for that.

 

[neat_onion]

Well, now we know how Huawei got their chips.

Buy a bunch, scratch the nameplates off, and call them Huawei chips instead.

SMIC is a Chinese fab, they make chips for various companies.

Apple M1/M2 processors and even AMD processors are manufactured by TSMC, they're not called TSMC CPUs right?