Don't even sell game graphics cards? The United States has made another "spicy move" in export control against China
According to the Federal Register of the U.S. federal government, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under the U.S. Department of Commerce issued regulations on March 29 local time to implement additional export controls, which are scheduled to take effect on April 4.
The new rules cover chips used in laptops
Straight News noted that the new rules announced by BIS this time are temporary final rules on additional export controls on advanced computing equipment, supercomputers and semiconductor end-uses, as well as amendments and clarifications on export controls on semiconductor manufactured goods.
The 166-page rule, which targets the export of semiconductor projects, is intended to make it more difficult for China to acquire U.S. AI chips and chip-making tools, such as the new rules, which also apply restrictions on the export of chips to China to laptops containing those chips.
This document details the corrections and clarifications to the Export Control Amendments and "Implementing Additional Export Controls: Certain Advanced Computing Items; Supercomputer and Semiconductor End-Uses; Updates and Clarifications" (AC/S IFR) published on October 25, 2023.
The Biden administration is targeting China's chip and semiconductor industry
This is the latest move by the U.S. government to escalate export controls on Chinese semiconductors, AI chips and other fields for some time.
On August 9, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act (hereinafter referred to as the "CHIPS Act") with a total amount of up to $280 billion, promoting the "reshoring" of chip manufacturing to the United States through huge industrial subsidies of $52.7 billion and provisions to curb competition. The bill prohibits subsidized U.S. and its allies from building or expanding advanced process chip fabs in China and other countries of concern for 10 years.
In October 2022 and October 2023, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce issued export controls on China's advanced semiconductors and computing equipment twice in a row, in an attempt to affect China's advanced manufacturing, and many products, including many GPUs and AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, can no longer be exported to China, and even the high-end gaming graphics card RTX 4090 has been restricted.
In December 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce's BIS announced the launch of an investigation into the semiconductor supply chain of mature process nodes, targeting China's chip semiconductor industry.
Bloomberg disclosed in early March that the United States is pressuring allies, including the Netherlands, Japan, Germany and South Korea, to further tighten restrictions on China's access to semiconductor technology. However, the move was resisted by some countries and the response was lukewarm. Both the Netherlands and Japan have indicated that they would like to assess the impact of the current restrictions before considering stricter measures.
China: The US "killed 10,000 enemies and lost 8,000 of its own losses"
On March 29, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said that the US has blocked and restricted China in the field of science and technology, sanctioned and suppressed Chinese companies, vainly attempted to contain China's development, seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, seriously violated the principles of market economy, seriously undermined international trade rules, and seriously undermined the stability of global industrial and supply chains. China will continue to pay close attention to relevant developments and resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.
A spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce said that the US has been broadening the concept of national security, abusing export control measures, and carrying out unilateral bullying behavior. China strongly deplores and resolutely opposes this, and will take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce said that the semiconductor industry is highly globalized, and the improper control by the United States has seriously hindered the normal economic and trade exchanges between chip and chip equipment, materials and parts enterprises in various countries, seriously undermined market rules and the international economic and trade order, and seriously threatened the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain. U.S. semiconductor companies have suffered huge losses, and semiconductor companies in other countries have also been affected.
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