- Chinese congress representatives calling import sales details from semiconductor equipment makers oversea.
- China
What happened
China hardliners in Congress are calling on five global semiconductor manufacturing firms to provide details of their sales to China. Companies on list including U.S. firms KLA, LAM, Applied Materials, as well as Japan-based Tokyo Electron and Dutch ASML. Washington lawmakers requests sales information from the five firms.
“We understand that some (toolmakers) believe we should limit the expansion of…future unilateral U.S. controls, due to perceived impacts on the competitiveness of this sector,” the lawmakers wrote. “However, enhanced export controls simply are not mutually exclusive with a robust and thriving (toolmaking) industry,” the democratic and republican leader of the house stated.
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