News U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report

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U.S. government wants to further restrict curbs for China's semiconductor sector as foreign companies still sell fairly advanced tools to Chinese entities.

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[vanadiel007]

So I guess the chip shortages during Covid were a made up thing, if we can have enough "chips" for everything without China making them for us...

 

[phead128]

The 18,000th sanction that finally truly unequivocally stop China's semiconductor, this time it's work, pinky promise.

 

[cirdecus]

So I guess the chip shortages during Covid were a made up thing, if we can have enough "chips" for everything without China making them for us...

China doesn't make high end chips. Chips for low tech devices far larger than 5/7nm are made in China but are shifting to the US over time.

Most of these sanctions are targeting high end chips and technologies that are required for further developing AI and military technologies. China domestically produces chips commonly used in smart devices, like light bulbs and low tech consumer appliances. The restrictions are designed to force ASML and TMSC as well as other supply chain entities in western countries from supplying or supporting China's ability to use these Western technologies against their allies, particularly the US

 

[phead128]

China doesn't make high end chips. Chips for low tech devices far larger than 5/7nm are made in China but are shifting to the US over time.

The definition of "advanced semiconductors" is 14/16nms according to US government , so China is capable of making advanced chips at 7nm and soon 5nm.

If you say only 5/7nm are "high-end", then Intel stuck at 10nm for past decade is unable to make "high-end" chips using your logic.