The Biden administration is adding 22 Chinese chipmakers to a trade blacklist, widening its crackdown on China-based semiconductor manufacturers. The Commerce Department added YMTC and 21 “major” Chinese entities working in the domain of artificial intelligence chips to a trade blacklist, broadening its crackdown on China’s chip industry. YMTC was added to the list over…
Biden Administration Blacklists 21 China-Based AI Chip Makers
Biden Administration Blacklists 21 China-Based AI Chipmakers
The Biden administration is adding 22 Chinese chipmakers to a trade blacklist, widening its crackdown on China-based semiconductor manufacturers. The Commerce Department added Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) and 21 “major” Chinese entities working in the domain of artificial intelligence chips to the blacklist. YMTC was added to the list over concerns it could divert…
Chipmaker TSMC Adds Second Fab to Its Arizona Site
News Analysis Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) recently announced the opening of a second chip plant in Arizona and increased its U.S. investment from $12 billion to $40 billion. President Joe Biden traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 6 to join the TSMC event. “American manufacturing is back, folks,” Biden said at the ceremony. “These…
Experts Warn UK Not to Trust TikTok’s Pledge to Keep User Data From CCP
A TikTok executive recently told the UK Parliament that while users’ personal data collected by the app can be remotely accessed in China, the company would never provide the data to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, it appears the reassurance has done little to ease the concerns around the social media giant and its…
PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Ashley Yablon: How I Exposed a CCP Tech Giant’s Elaborate Scheme to Evade US Sanctions
This episode will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “As I was scrolling through it, I saw a section of the contract that was titled, ‘How we will get around U.S. export laws’ … And I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw that, and I knew that I needed…
US Experts Worried About China Cornering Market for Old-Gen Chip Technology
With Chinese firms increasingly focusing on boosting the production of older generation chips, experts in the United States and the Western world more broadly, are worried about the development posing a significant international security threat. Older generation chips are still critical for various technologies. For instance, 28-nanometer chips have been in use since 2011 in…
US Senators Introduce Bill to Restrict Huawei’s Access to American Banks
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban Chinese tech company Huawei and CCP owned 5G companies from accessing the American banking system to prevent espionage. The bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) with the backing of fellow senators like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.),…
PREMIERING 12/15 at 7:30PM ET: Ashley Yablon: How I Exposed a CCP Tech Giant’s Elaborate Scheme to Evade US Sanctions
This episode will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “As I was scrolling through it, I saw a section of the contract that was titled, ‘How we will get around U.S. export laws’ … And I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw that, and I knew that I needed…
Tennessee Joins Wave of Statewide TikTok Bans Over Security Concerns
Tennessee is taking steps to ban video-sharing app TikTok from government devices alongside a wave of states banning the app due to growing concerns over cybersecurity. In a statement to WKRN, Gov. Bill Lee’s office said the state “has also taken additional steps to block the access of TikTok” on any personal or state-owned device that…
UK Security Minister Tom Tugendhat Warns of CCP’s Influence on Youth Through TikTok
Britain’s Security Minister Tom Tugendhat has warned that in the run-up to the next general election large numbers of young voters will be getting their news from TikTok whose editorial board, he said, is comprised of members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Giving a speech at the Policy Exchange think tank in London on…
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