The
restrictions, should they become a reality, "will cause serious
harm to the semiconductor industry in China, with detriment to
the global economy, as well as long-term damages to the
interests of consumers world-wide," the association said in a
statement.
CSIA also called on the Chinese government to establish rules
"for maintaining the healthy development of the global
semiconductor industry ecology."
In January, media reports surfaced stating that Japan and the
Netherlands had agreed to comply with export restrictions
against China's chip sector that the U.S. government had
announced in October 2022.
The initial U.S. sanctions took aim at Chinese purchases of
advanced artificial intelligence (AI) computing chips, as well
as equipment that chip factories could use to produce
leading-edge computing chips.
Japan and the Netherlands are market leaders in the latter
category. Both countries are the only producers of
market-competitive lithography machines, which are a key
component in the chip manufacturing process.
The governments have not directly addressed reports that they
are cooperating with the United States, and the degree of their
compliance and the restrictions' enforcement remains unclear.
The Netherlands' ASML is the world's dominant provider of
extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, which it had
already ceased selling to China in compliance with an earlier
U.S. ban.
Along with ASML, Japan's Nikon Corp and Canon Inc produce deep
ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, which chip manufacturers
use to make less advanced chips.
Shanghai-based chip foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing
International Corp and Wuhan-based memory maker Yangtze Memory
Technologies Co Ltd are among the Chinese companies set to be
affected by the restrictions.
(Reporting by Josh Horwitz; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Tom
Hogue and Jamie Freed)
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