The Biden administration is adding 22 Chinese chipmakers to a trade blacklist, widening its crackdown on China-based semiconductor manufacturers.
The Commerce Department added YMTC and 21 “major” Chinese entities working in the domain of artificial intelligence chips to a trade blacklist, broadening its crackdown on China’s chip industry.
YMTC was added to the list over fears it could divert American technology to previously blacklisted Chinese tech giants including Huawei and Hikvision. YMTC’s suppliers are now banned from shipping U.S. goods to the company without a difficult-to-obtain license.
The administration will take a more aggressive approach to the other 21 entities, including Cambricon Technologies and China’s state-owned CETC, effectively blocking them from accessing technology made anywhere in the world with U.S. equipment….