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US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk (zdnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the cease-and-desist dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Trump administration on Monday announced it was banning U.S. exports to a Chinese semiconductor firm named Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company, citing national security concerns. In a statement released by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC), officials said the Chinese chipmaker posed "a significant risk of being or becoming involved, in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States." DoC officials are now barring US companies from selling any products to Fujian Jinhua, which was recently nearing completion of a new dynamic random access memory (DRAM) factory project. "When a foreign company engages in activity contrary to our national security interests, we will take strong action to protect our national security. Placing Jinhua on the Entity List will limit its ability to threaten the supply chain for essential components in our military systems," said Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce.

5 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Trump Administration? Does it affect tweeting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In all seriousness, how can the Trump Administration at all be taken serious with anything related to STEM? The closest to technology the ignorant POTUS gets to is his daily ingestion of MSM Fox News and his nightly Twitter binges.

  2. Screw Trump by damicatz · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course, once again, Trump is doing the bidding of his corporate masters. When he isn't busy holding his neo-nazi fascist white supremacist rallies, he is busy enabling them to gouge the American public.

    Never mind the fact that Micron et. al have repeatedly engaged in price fixing. Never mind the fact that Chinese DRAM could provide much needed relief for the ridiculous DRAM prices and help computers. Somehow, the fact that the Chinese are threatening the profits of a billion dollar corporation is a matter of national security while the fact that we have people in synagogues being massacred by AR-15 welding far-right terrorists isn't.

    1. Re:Screw Trump by damicatz · · Score: 1, Troll

      We also can't trust the American government with ownership of mission critical components. And government and corporations are just as entangled here as they are in China, the US government simply does a better job of obfuscating it.

      Literally almost everything Trump accuses China of doing, the American government is equally guilty of doing. There are no good guys here.

  3. Agreed, the numbers don't lie by raymorris · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pretty much the same here. I have no respect for the man and I think having him as President cheapens the office, just as much as having Pervy Willy as President.

    Yet, remember how we couldn't get to 4% economic growth without a magic wand? Two years ago getting unemployment down to 4% was impossible. It's at 3.7%.

    In 2014, the unemployment rate for black people was over 11%. Now it's under 6%, the lowest in history.

    That asshole is signing into law policies that work.

  4. Re:They are involved in IP theft. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wrong wogboi. Copying my IP is theft of my IP. EOF. Shut down the chi.com thievers ... remove their market and bust their gub'mnt pimps.