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Huawei Technologies and a secretive chipmaking partner in China have filed patents for a low-tech but potentially effective way to make advanced semiconductors, raising the prospect that China could improve chip production techniques despite US efforts to halt its progress.
Bloomberg
The significance of the latest phones made by China's Huawei has been overstated.
Barron's
A new smartphone from Huawei Technologies has reignited debate over chip technology and China's ability to skirt US-led curbs. In reality, last week's release of the Mate 60 Pro shows that the success of sanctions is painted in shades of grey, with the true impact yet to come.
Bloomberg
China's largest chip maker SMIC is ramping up production of a decade-old chip technology, key to many industries' supply chains, setting off alarm bells in the United States and prompting some lawmakers to try to stop them.
Reuters
China's top anti-corruption watchdog has launched investigations against several executives linked to the country's largest chip investment fund, as Beijing steps up scrutiny of the sector in its race for technological self-sufficiency.
The Financial Times
Washington had banned the sale of most gear that can fabricate chips of 10 nanometers or better to Chinese leader SMIC without a license. Now it has expanded that barrier to equipment that can make anything more advanced than 14 nm, Lam Research CEO Tim Archer told analysts.
Bloomberg
Synopsys, the biggest supplier of software used to design semiconductors, is under investigation by the US Department of Commerce for possibly passing key technology to banned Chinese companies, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg
The Russian Federation government is considering adding chip designers Baikal Electronics and MCST to the list of 'backbone enterprises.' The status will provide Baikal and MSCT with numerous benefits, including subsidies. State aid might help these companies to transition the production of their chips from Taiwan to China. Meanwhile, it is unclear whether fabs like SMIC and Hua Hong are interested in making chips for Russian companies and risk additional sanctions.
TG Daily
if the United States were to find that a company like the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, in Shanghai, was selling its chips to Russia, "we could essentially shut SMIC down because we prevent them from using our equipment and our software."
New York Times
Biden administration officials met last week to consider tightening rules that restrict the sale of equipment to Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC). The meeting ended without an immediate resolution, and that left hawks in Washington dissatisfied.
Bloomberg
The Biden administration is considering imposing tougher sanctions on China's largest chipmaker, according to people familiar with the situation, building on an effort to limit the country's access to advanced technology.
Fortune
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) said on Wednesday it planned to jointly invest in a US$2.35 billion project with the government of Shenzhen to make 40,000 wafers per month in the southern Chinese city from 2022.
Reuters (via Yahoo! Finance)
The remarks could signal a shift in focus at the Shanghai foundry which has seen its chances of closing the tech gap with bigger rival TSMC hurt by US sanctions
South China Morning Post
China's biggest chipmaker SMIC said on Sunday that being put on a U.S. trade blacklist would pose a significant adverse impact to its research and development in its 10-nanometer and more advanced chip technology.
Reuters
The United States added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd, to a trade blacklist on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ratchets up tensions with China in his final weeks in office.
Reuters
The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker, SMIC, and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, drawing condemnation from Beijing as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.
Reuters
The Trump administration is poised to add China's top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to US investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Reuters
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is facing some delays in getting U.S.-made equipment, parts and materials, the Global Times newspaper reported on Thursday, after Washington imposed export restrictions against the firm.
Reuters
Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has undertaken "preliminary exchanges" with the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security regarding export restrictions, the company said on Sunday in a filing.
Reuters
On Friday, the US Department of Commerce told companies that exports to China's SMIC posed an "unacceptable risk" of being diverted to "military end use", according to a copy of the letter seen by the Financial Times.
The Financial Times
Export controls hamstring 'Made in China' and Japanese suppliers
Nikkei Asian Review
Companies that supply the chip sector with sophisticated and expensive equipment plan to warn the Trump administration against a proposal to blacklist China's top chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, arguing it would be "detrimental" to U.S. industry.
Reuters
SMIC has asked for approval from the United States to continue supplying Huawei, state media outlet Beijing News reported on Tuesday, citing the company.
Reuters
Shares in Chinese chipmaker SMIC plummeted nearly 23% in Hong Kong on Monday on fears that it could become the latest casualty of the US-China tech war.
CNN
The Trump administration is considering adding Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) to a trade blacklist, in another sign of heightening US-China technology tensions.
Washington Post
SMIC, China's biggest chipmaker, saw its shares surge 245% at the open on its first day of trade in Shanghai.
CNBC
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) is preparing a $6.55 billion stock offering, as Beijing moves to shore up its semiconductor capabilities amid heightened tensions with the US.
Wall Street Journal
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) will raise 46.29 billion yuan ($6.55 billion) in a Shanghai share sale, more than double its initial target, pricing its offering following a surge in its Hong Kong-listed stock.
Reuters
China's largest contract chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has filed for a listing in Shanghai that will raise 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion).
CNBC
Shanghai-based chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp has secured an investment worth $2.2 billion dollars from Chinese state investors, the company announced on Friday.
Reuters
The co-chief executives of China's largest chipmaker are fighting over whether to build a profitable business or focus on leading-edge technology, highlighting the problems plaguing the government's push to build an indigenous semiconductor manufacturing sector.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), China's top state-backed contract chipmaker, has placed an order for one set of extreme-ultraviolet lithography equipment, according to people familiar with the matter.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
Efinix has received silicon product samples for its first Quantum accelerated programmable product platform built on SMIC's 40nm process. A milestone was achieved with record breaking efficiency, going from product development using SMIC's Physical Design Kit (PDK) to system validation of the samples in less than six months, according to the companies.
Company release
The technology sector in China is still not sophisticated enough to compete with the US in the global chip market, the chairman of China's top contract chipmaker said on Tuesday.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
"China will find it very tough to buy US high-tech companies and difficult to leverage Chinese joint ventures or wholly-owned enterprises to access key US intellectual property," Andrew Lu wrote in a Jan. 10 report for Smartkarma. "We thus expect more senior Taiwan veterans to join China's semiconductor industry as a second wave of talent moves to China."
EE Times
The Crossbar ReRAM for embedded non-volatile memory applications is in production at partner foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) using a 40nm CMOS process and is sampling to SMIC customers, according to Sylvain Dubois, Crossbar's VP of strategic marketing and business development.
EE Times
It includes confidential information about Samsung's 14nm and 10nm fabrication processes.
SamMobile
Shanghai Daily
The Shanghai Integrated Circuit Investment Fund (SICIF) has announced a plan to invest CNY20 billion (US$3 billion) in foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and two other Shanghai-based chip manufacturers, according to a Moody's Investors Service report.
EE Times
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) of China is seeking to take over Dongbu HiTek, industry sources said Monday.
The Korea Times
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