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The U.S. and the Netherlands are expected to slap new restrictions on equipment sales to Chinese chipmakers this summer, Reuters reported, amid ongoing national security fears.
The U.S. will likely withhold more Dutch equipment from certain Chinese fabs, while the Netherlands plans to restrict chipmaking equipment from Dutch semiconductor giant ASML (NASDAQ:ASML) and other companies.
The new Dutch regulations will include a licensing requirement for ASML’s (ASML) deep ultra violet semiconductor equipment. Its extreme ultraviolent lithography machines are already restricted.
The new rules will not take effect immediately, the report said citing sources, and they could become effective in September. The Netherlands had earlier caved in to a U.S. request to impose export restrictions on China.
Meanwhile, the U.S. may restrict ASML’s (ASML) older DUV models from six Chinese facilities in a new rule that would curb the export of foreign equipment that have even a small percentage of U.S. parts to those plants. This will likely include a fab operated by China’s largest chipmaker SMIC (OTCQX:SIUIF).
The new rule, which could be published late July, will apply to ASML (ASML) as its systems contain U.S. components.
The U.S. will issue updates to its export control rules announced in October as it ramps up efforts to isolate China from one of the most important technologies of the future. Last year, the U.S. curbed the sale of certain Nvidia (NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chips to China and Russia.
Apart from the Netherlands, Japan also joined in the chip war, and will restrict exports of 23 types of chipmaking equipment, effective July 23.
