US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network
- Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone
- Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security
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The Biden administration is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese semiconductor firms linked to Huawei Technologies Co. after the telecom giant notched a significant technological breakthrough last year, people familiar with the matter said.
Such a move would mark another escalation in a US campaign to ringfence and curtail Beijing’s AI and semiconductor ambitions. It would ratchet up the pressure on a Chinese national champion that’s made advances despite existing sanctions, including producing a smartphone processor last year that many in Washington thought beyond its capabilities.