U.S. slaps restrictions on Chinese chipmaker and other companies over national security worries

The Biden medication said Thursday it was "severely" restricting dozens of mostly Chinese organizations, including astatine slightest 1 spot maker, implicit their efforts to usage precocious technologies to assistance modernize China's military.

The 36 entities volition look "stringent licence requirements" that hamper their entree to definite U.S.-produced commodities, software, and technologies — including artificial quality and precocious computing, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security said successful a property release.

The Bureau's latest enactment comes much than 2 months aft the Biden medication imposed caller curbs connected China's entree to advanced semiconductors.

The caller designations besides instrumentality purpose astatine Russia-linked entities supporting that country's subject penetration of Ukraine, the bureau said.

The actions volition support U.S. nationalist information by squelching Beijing's quality to "leverage artificial intelligence, precocious computing, and different powerful, commercially disposable technologies for subject modernization and quality rights abuses," Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez said successful the property release.

"This enactment volition continue, arsenic volition our efforts to observe and disrupt Russia's efforts to get indispensable items and technologies and different items for its brutal warfare against Ukraine, including from Iran," Estevez said.

One of the companies added to the alleged entity database was Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation, oregon YMTC, a cardinal Chinese chipmaker that had antecedently been added to the U.S. Unverified List, different trade-restricting designation.

"I've agelong sounded the alarm connected the sedate nationalist information and economical threats down YMTC and different CCP-backed exertion companies, similar CXMT and SMIC," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said successful a connection Thursday morning.

"YMTC poses an contiguous menace to our nationalist security, truthful the Biden Administration needed to enactment swiftly to forestall YMTC from gaining adjacent an inch of a subject oregon economical advantage," Schumer said.

Thursday's property merchandise specified that 30 of the groups were being added to the entity database for activities related to their efforts to get U.S. materials successful bid to bolster China's subject modernization. Four much were added owed to "their important hazard of becoming progressive successful activities that could person a antagonistic impact" connected U.S. nationalist information of overseas policy, according to the release.

Another entity was added for its alleged engagement successful China's quality rights abuses against Uyghurs and different Muslim groups successful Xinjiang, arsenic good arsenic for allegedly helping Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps get U.S. items.

The Biden medication besides said it would assistance immoderate restrictions connected a nett full of 25 Chinese entities that successfully complied with U.S. checks to verify that its exported goods were being utilized successful the mode the entities claimed.