"The US has spent the better part of a decade now trying to kneecap China's domestic semiconductor industry by limiting access to key chipmaking technologies like extreme and deep ultraviolet (EUV / DUV) lithography. However, US export policy under the past two administrations has largely targeted specific companies like China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), rather than blocking sales at a country level."
""Entity-specific controls, while valuable, cannot substitute for countrywide restrictions on the most critical chokepoint tools," they wrote. "We urge the administration to press allies to implement countrywide controls on key chokepoint semiconductor manufacturing equipment and subcomponents." The lawmakers describe "chokepoint" equipment and subcomponents as those China lacks a domestic equivalent for. However, because the semiconductor supply chain is so diverse, many key components are made outside the US, limiting its ability to police"
A bipartisan group of eight U.S. lawmakers called on the Trump administration to enact a blanket ban on equipment used in advanced semiconductor production to all of China. They argue entity-specific restrictions are ineffective because once equipment crosses China's border the U.S. has limited enforcement over end-use and end-users. The legislators define chokepoint tools as equipment and subcomponents without domestic Chinese equivalents and urge allies to impose countrywide controls on these items. The supply chain's global diversity and foreign-made components limit the U.S.'s ability to police targeted restrictions.
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