The United States is ready to impose the strictest sanctions against Chinese chip manufacturers, if necessary, reducing the room for maneuver of its own allies, reported the Bloomberg on Tuesday, citing insider sources. According to the report, the US government intends to implement an export ban created in the previous century, if the Netherlands and Japan continue to supply Chinese chip manufacturers with equipment essential for semiconductor production.
These are extremely expensive lighting devices that require serious engineering knowledge for their use, assembly and maintenance, which are the most important elements of the equipment park of semiconductor manufacturing. Currently, the Dutch ASML and the Japanese Tokyo Electron can produce such equipment in large quantities according to the needs of customers such as Intel, TSMC or Samsung Electronics.
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According to newspaper reports, the US has now informed its Japanese and Dutch partners that if they continue to supply their equipment to Chinese chip manufacturers affected by export restrictions despite the embargo, the government is ready to use the FDPR clause (Foreign Direct Product Rule) against them.
This piece of legislation, created in 1959, states that the United States has the right to prohibit the distribution of any product or technology if it is made with American technology and/or contains American technology – even if the manufacturer is not American.
The United States had not previously imposed any similar restrictions on suppliers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, but at the beginning of last year, after extensive lobbying, it managed to convince Japan and the Netherlands to implement certain export bans against China.
Despite everything, 49% of ASML’s sales in the second quarter came from China, and this share effectively did not change compared to the first quarter, according to the Dutch company’s financial report published on Tuesday.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
