For the restrictions to be effective, Washington needed to bring on board the Netherlands and Japan, home to major chipmakers ASML and Tokyo Electron, among others.
Officials from the Netherlands and Japan were in Washington discussing a wide range of issues in talks led by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday. China’s semiconductor industry has become a key target of US export restrictions. Beijing has ploughed money into cultivating its domestic industry but its fabrication plants, known as fabs, still heavily rely on foreign-made equipment.
The US put SMIC on its Entity List in 2020 – effectively barring Dutch firm ASML from providing extreme ultraviolet lithography machines to SMIC.
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