[Editor's Note] This article is authorized to be reproduced from Zhihu "A pot of tea and one idle person". Author Ksliu, a well-known American current affairs commentator .
On October 4, 2022, the Financial Times, New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and Reuters have all reported that the US Department of Commerce will introduce new regulations to comprehensively regulate exports. bans American companies and non-U.S. companies that use American technology and equipment to sell cutting-edge chips, technologies and equipment that can be used in supercomputers, quantum computing , hypersonic weapons and other products to Chinese companies.
According to reports, China launched its first 10 billion supercomputer last year, ahead of the United States. Most of the processors that power such supercomputers are designed by companies such as Tianjin Feiteng Information Technology, but they cannot be made in China yet. Last year, after discovering that some of its chips were produced by TSMC, the United States blacklisted.
These new regulations will make it more difficult for Chinese chip manufacturers, including SMIC , Changjiang Storage Technology and Changxin Storage Technology, to narrow the technological gap between them and Western countries.
According to two sources familiar with the matter from the Financial Times, the United States may set a "14-nanometer" threshold, which may be the current level of chip technology that China can independently mass-produce.
According to reports, according to the new regulations, The US Department of Commerce will also send the "blacklist" of sanctioned companies (also known as "entity list") to foreign companies, requiring them to participate in "safe trade" and cooperate with the United States to sanction .
The New York Times said in a report that these new news will be the most important measures taken by the Biden administration to block China from obtaining advanced semiconductor technology. These measures will be based on a rule in the Trump era that prohibits companies around the world from selling products made using American technology, machines or software to Huawei . In fact, any company that uses American manufacturing technology will be blocked from selling to Chinese entities blacklisted by the U.S. government.
The Wall Street Journal reported that many measures may apply to the entire industry in the upcoming actions announced by the Biden administration, thereby expanding restrictions that the United States has taken against individual companies, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. Eric Sayers, managing partner of Beacon Global Strategies, a security consulting firm, said the overall plan was a "bold" move, saying: " This will win the Biden team Capitol Hill praise for China hawks , who are dissatisfied with the slow progress in export control policies."
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