• US government to implement plans to take measures against China to curb its high-end chip development.
  • Sanctions and counter-sanctions on chips between China and the United States have been going on for a long time, greatly hindering the circulation of high-end technologies among themselves and the development of chip technology, which is a lose-lose situation.

Changxin Memory Technologies, a dominant Chinese chipmaker company is being blacklisted by the US government. It is a strategy to restrain China from accessing advanced chip technologies.

The US government started its plan to restrain China’s advanced chip technology, and Changxin is going to be blacklisted

According to Bloomberg News this Friday, the United States is reportedly planning sanctions on several tech companies from China, including chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies, aiming to further urge China’s development of advanced semiconductors.

It is said by people familiar with the issue that the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security was considering adding ChangXin and other five more Chinese companies to the so-called entity list, which will restrain access to US technology.

ChangXin Memory Technologies said it “specializes in producing commodity DRAM memory chips for everyday consumer products, with a specific focus on civilian and commercial applications.”

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Changxin claimed that it is innocent, which means the sanctions are not reasonable

The company had made a clear claim to Reuters on Sunday, saying that it complies with US export regulations.

Reuters has reported that the United States took action last year to reject American imports to a major SMIC after it produced the chip needed by HuaWei’s Mate Pro phone. In addition, there is at least one more supplier, Entegris, being banned from import, whose chipmaking materials are worth millions of dollars.

The United States has moved aggressively in recent months to halt shipments to China of more advanced AI chips, sparing no efforts to stop Beijing from receiving cutting-edge US technologies that could strengthen its military.

China has fought back against U.S. sanctions before

Previously in April 2023, China banned some sales of Micron products after launching a probe into the American memory chip giant for cybersecurity risks. The mutual defense and distrust between China and the United States have seriously hampered the development of chip technology. The malicious containment of China by the United States undermines the purity of the environment for scientific and technological research and development.