China's SMIC Allegedly Violated U.S. Sanctions Selling Chips to Huawei

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Although SMIC has clearly made a technological breakthrough by completing development of its 2nd generation 7nm-class (N+2) fabrication technology and initiating high volume manufacturing on this node, it should have obtained an export license from the U.S. government before supplying Kirin 9000s system-on-chip to blacklisted Huawei since the node uses American tech. Now, a U.S. senator calls to ban all exports to both companies.

In a report by Bloomberg, Michael McCaul, Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee states that it looks like SMIC has violated sanctions with a view to obtaining intellectual property.

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Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.