The US plans to strengthen the measures that it takes to make sure that China does not have access to advanced chip tech. This includes posing restrictions on all advanced semiconductors and chipmaking gears. It is in relation to the geopolitical tensions existing between the two nations, in which each of the nations is trying to get dominance over the latest technology before the other does. Having a high hand in cutting-edge technologies can also give the nation a military dominance.
Does China Have Access To The Advanced Chip Tech, Already?
The current strategy that the Biden administration has adopted is receiving nationwide criticism. The reason is that even when the US has restricted its sellers and the whole exports from the business of the advanced chips and semiconductors to China, its ally nations continue their exports of these advanced gears to the nation. The key nations that have industry-leading chip tech and the ally nations of the US are Japan and the Netherlands.
The importing of advanced tech from these nations has considerably helped China to develop its own tech capabilities. The tensions were fired up as Huawei Technologies Co, one of the global leaders in ICT infrastructures and also a manufacturer of smart devices, headquartered in China, launched a new smartphone that operated with an advanced 7-nanometer processor.
The smart device was introduced to the market in August 2023, which made it evident that China does have access to the advanced tech even with the US trying to curb China’s access to the advanced chip tech.
These assumptions were verified when a teardown of the same mobile happened that unveiled that the chip was manufactured by a company in China making it clear that China clearly has access to all the tech that the US was trying to restrict it from having access to, this has made the political opposition question the actions of the Biden administration.
What Does The Presence Of An Advanced Chip In A Huawei Phone Mean?
The Director of the Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Gregory Allen, views that the Huawei phone is not considered a major national security issue for the government and public of the United States, however, more information is needed on the chip inside these phones. Even the presence of such a chip hints about the present technology that the semiconductor industry in China is at.
He continued that with the advances in the Chinese semiconductor industry that are currently used in chip production the mobiles would not take much longer to be available to the Chinese military and the possibility that the Chinese military already has access to this advanced chip technology can not be denied. The director added that if that is the situation then the approach that the US has currently towards breakthrough technology.
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So, What Does The Biden Administration Have In Mind?
Following all these, the Biden administration is taking steps to curb the export of the advanced chip to China through other nations, that are the allies of the US. The new strategies also include making several tweaks in the existing parameters that control the export of the graphic chips cover components namely accelerators. Another restriction that will be imposed soon will be controlling certain shipments to Chinese companies.
The administration is also planning to start a licensing system to track and restrict all such exports. These decisions are facing two kinds of responses. One is the welcoming of it as it ensures China does not get access to these at the same time the giant manufacturer of advanced chips views that the blanket restriction should be lesser or else they will not be able to either introduce or sell to the largest chip market of the world.
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