The US is considering additional sanctions on Chinese semiconductor companies related to Huawei, shocked by the fact that the Mate 60 Pro was equipped with an advanced 7nm chip.

In 2023, Huawei, a major Chinese communications equipment manufacturer, released the Mate 60 Pro, a flagship smartphone equipped with a unique cutting-edge chip that was thought to be technologically impossible. It has been reported that the US government, feeling a sense of crisis about this, is considering adding multiple Chinese companies that make up a top secret semiconductor supply network to a blacklist.

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In August 2023, Huawei released the Mate 60 Pro, a smartphone equipped with a 7nm process 5G chip procured by circumventing U.S. export regulations and Korean-made memory that has been flagged as violating regulations. believes that ``Huawei has already proven that it can compete with leading smartphone OEMs.''

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According to reports, the Biden administration will place a number of Chinese semiconductor companies associated with Huawei on the Entity List subject to export controls in response to Huawei's technological advances in 2023. It is said that they are considering it.

Chinese companies that may be subject to new regulations include Qingdao Si'En, SwaySure, Shenzhen Pensun Technology, and ChangXin Memory Technologies. This includes technology such as Changxin Saving Techniques, but it has not yet been finalized.

Most of these companies were named in an August 2023 presentation by the Semiconductor Industry Association as chip manufacturing facilities that Huawei has acquired or is building, according to an anonymous source. informants point out.

According to one of the people involved, it is not only chip manufacturing companies that are being targeted, but also semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturers Shenzhen Pengjin High-Tech and SiCarrier. ) may also be subject to sanctions. SiCarrier has long been named as a company that Huawei built a relationship with in order to replace ASML, a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturer, and the US government has announced that both companies are acting as agents for Huawei to control semiconductor manufacturing equipment under regulation. I am concerned that he may be complicit in obtaining this information.

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It is unclear when U.S. authorities will make a final decision, and the timing depends on future U.S.-China relations, officials said. The two countries have been exploring ways to improve relations since the beginning of 2024, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen planning to visit China again in 2024, and senior government officials planning to meet President Joe Biden in the spring of 2024. Arrangements are underway for a telephone conversation with President Xi Jinping.

The White House National Security Council, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Chinese companies, and the Department of Commerce did not respond to media inquiries.

Edison Lee, an analyst at Jefferies, an American investment firm, said, ``It is highly likely that these Chinese companies will be added to the US Entity List.The justification for their addition is easy; We can stop major Chinese companies from exploiting loopholes in export controls.'