SHENZHEN's huawei Technologies has alarmed Western politicians when it debuted its US$900 smartphone that signaled China's rapid advance in semiconductor field.
The event thrust the little-known Shanghai Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) China's response to the American blockade that would stymie China's technological progress, said Bloomberg.
The accomplishments of SMIC are all the more surprising because it's been hit by US restrictions for more than a decade and was formally blacklisted in 2020.
The US Commerce Department is supposed to wield broad control over the company's purchases of any equipment or software with American inputs, but it continued to issue licences to SMIC suppliers. US lawmakers are now calling for Biden to crack down further.
'Once this comes to light, there's not much they can do but get much tougher on SMIC,' said Douglas Fuller, associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School. 'If they don't get tougher on SMIC, then this policy doesn't make any sense.'
The US government has said its chip strategy is not aimed at China's smartphones, but rather its military capabilities. Semiconductors are at the foundation of the tech industry, enabling everything from artificial intelligence models and cloud computing to drones, tanks and missiles.
SMIC and the Commerce Department declined to comment.
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The event thrust the little-known Shanghai Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) China's response to the American blockade that would stymie China's technological progress, said Bloomberg.
The accomplishments of SMIC are all the more surprising because it's been hit by US restrictions for more than a decade and was formally blacklisted in 2020.
The US Commerce Department is supposed to wield broad control over the company's purchases of any equipment or software with American inputs, but it continued to issue licences to SMIC suppliers. US lawmakers are now calling for Biden to crack down further.
'Once this comes to light, there's not much they can do but get much tougher on SMIC,' said Douglas Fuller, associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School. 'If they don't get tougher on SMIC, then this policy doesn't make any sense.'
The US government has said its chip strategy is not aimed at China's smartphones, but rather its military capabilities. Semiconductors are at the foundation of the tech industry, enabling everything from artificial intelligence models and cloud computing to drones, tanks and missiles.
SMIC and the Commerce Department declined to comment.
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