Huawei has produced a new line of smartphones, the Mate 60 with a 7-nanometre microprocessor with 5G capabilities comparable to the latest Apple iPhone. In October 2022, the U.S. Commerce Department introduced new export control measures designed to prevent the use of American chip technology for Chinese military purposes. These targeted Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). The controls restricted sharing US intellectual property and sales of integrated circuits or any chipmaking equipment in China and to Chinese firms. Huawei and SMIC worked together to produce the latest chips.
SMIC somehow had acess to lithography machines which are used to create semiconductors by marking the surface of a silicon wafer. Jake Sullivan, US national security adviser, said that America needed to get “more information” about the Kirin 9000S. Americans are forbidden from working for Chinese advanced chip makers, due to export controls
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