Bloomberg News reported that Alan Estevez (Alan Estevez, Under Secretary of the Department of Commerce, Industry and Security, prepares to travel to Japan and the Netherlands. Requesting the two countries to add a new round of strict control measures to the Chinese semiconductor industry, including limiting China's ability to produce advanced memory chips for artificial intelligence technology.
Internal sources say that Alan Estevez will meet high-ranking government officials in Japan and the Netherlands. In order to increase measures to limit the activities of companies supplying chips to China, including the Dutch ASML and Japan's Tokyo Electron, Alan Estevez's request for cooperation is part of negotiations with partners that are still ongoing. It will target Chinese chip factories that develop high-bandwidth memory chips.
ASML and Tokyo Electron machines are used to produce DRAM memory chip dies, which are then assembled to make HBM chips, according to Qichacha The Chinese company that makes the HBM chips is Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Yangtze Memory Technologies Huawei Technologies and ChangXin. Memory technologies have also been reported to be developing HBM chips.
The United States is the most important player in the global semiconductor industry, said Gregory Allen, director of the Wadhwani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But it is still far from the main country. Like Japan and the Netherlands, which are major suppliers of machinery related to semiconductor production, the Netherlands and Japan have imposed export restrictions. But there are no restrictions on the service. This is important in reducing the overall structure of technology control.
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