A new smartphone from Chinese tech giant Huawei may have just punched an unexpected hole through the Biden administration’s high-tech defenses.
Just as Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was concluding a fence-mending trip to Beijing late last month, the heavily-sanctioned Chinese tech flagship Huawei released its next-generation smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, boasting 5G operational speeds and apparently defying U.S. attempts to limit the access of Chinese rivals to cutting-edge U.S. technology.
The most advanced new semiconductors — as small as 2 nanometers — remain beyond Beijing’s reach, Mr. Foster told The Washington Times, in part because Chinese firms cannot obtain the needed EUV manufacturing equipment as a result of U.S.-led restrictions. Upstream, the critical companies are Japan’s Nikon and Holland’s ASML, which make the machinery needed to mass-produce the most advanced chips. Downstream, those machines are used by Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung, the two biggest global manufacturers of advanced chips.
Industry rumors suggest China may have obtained one or two EUV machines, but they would be impossible to use as supply of parts and services has been cut off, Mr. Foster said. President Xi Jinping has made semiconductor self-sufficiency a national priority. Chips are capital intensive, and Beijing is reportedlyChina is the world’s biggest chip market, and South Korean and Taiwanese players do not just sell there, they are also invested in Chinese fabrication plants.in 2022 that China retained its status as the globe’s biggest chip market, with sales of $180.4 billion. However, that marked a 5.
“On the conservative spectrum, you have a variety of views that range from old free-traders who think any interference is bad in principle to hawks who say since China, in their view, violated every principle of free trade by stealing tech and giving state subsidies [and that] you have to fight fire with fire,” said David Goldman, New York-based manager of consultancy Macrostrategy.
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