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China’s AMEC Dropped From Pentagon Blacklist After Suing US
- AMEC was designated a Chinese military company in January
- Company sued Department of Defense to remove the designation
Models of products at the Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) booth at the Semicon China expo in March.
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Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. has been removed from the US Department of Defense’s list of Chinese military companies, doing away with what the firm described as an “irrational” designation.
The producer of chipmaking equipment was placed on the Pentagon’s blacklist, which doesn’t carry specific sanctions but tends to discourage US firms from trading with named entities, in January and strongly disputed it had any links to China’s People’s Liberation Army. Shanghai-based AMEC then sued the Defense Department in August, and the agency this month updated its list to remove it and IDG Capital.