According to sources familiar with the matter, the Biden administration is considering additional curbs on sales of semiconductor equipment and artificial intelligence (AI) memory chips to China but is stopping short of some stricter measures previously considered.
The restrictions could be unveiled as soon as next week, said the sources, who emphasized that the timing and contours of the rules have changed several times, and that nothing is final until they are published. The measures follow months of deliberations by US officials, negotiations with allies in Japan and the Netherlands, and intense lobbying by American chip equipment makers who have warned that tougher measures would bring catastrophic harm to their business.
The latest proposal has key differences from earlier drafts, the sources said. The first is which Chinese companies the US would add to a trade restriction list. The sources said that the US had previously considered sanctioning six suppliers to Huawei Technologies – the telecom giant at the center of China's tech industry – and officials are aware of at least a half dozen more.
The US had previously considered targeting at least six suppliers of Chinese tech giant Huawei, but now plans to include only some of them on the list. The report specifically mentions that ChangXin Memory Technologies, which is trying to develop AI memory chip technology, is not on the list.
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