On Friday, the Biden administration unveiled a wide-ranging set of export controls, including a measure that would deny China access to certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world using American equipment, greatly expanding its reach in an attempt to slow down Beijing’s technology and manufacturing processes. . military achievements, reports Reuters.

The rules, some of which take effect immediately, build on restrictions sent this year in letters to top instrument makers KLA Corp, Lam Research Corp and Applied Materials Inc, effectively requiring them to stop supplying equipment to factories in China that produce advanced technology. chips

The series of measures could be the biggest change in US technology policy to China since the 1990s.

If effective, they could hurt China’s chip industry by forcing US and foreign companies that use American technology to stop supporting some of China’s top factories and chip makers.

“This will set the Chinese back many years,” said Jim Lewis, a technology and cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank.

According to him, in this way, American policy is returning to the strict rules of the height of the Cold War.

“China is not going to give up chip manufacturing … but it will really slow them down,” Lewis added.

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