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US suppliers slow to get export licenses to Chinese chip giant SMIC
- Friday | 5th March, 2021
The Trump administration placed SMIC on the US Department of Commerce’s entity list over concerns of SMIC aiding China’s military. The administration is supposed to make decisions on license applications within a month, but follow-up questions stop the clock. “Lam Research is still in the application process and has not yet received a response,” a Fremont, California, company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. SMIC’s technological capabilities lag far behind cutting-edge foundries like industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, according to industry sources. Companies like Applied Materials and Lam Research, two key suppliers of production equipment, submitted numerous license applications to sell to the company.
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