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Japan and the Netherlands will join the US in imposing chip bans on China. The purpose of this is "hitting Beijing's ambitions for building its capacities for the production of domestic chips", according to the newspaper's sources. Dutch company ASML Holding VL will be banned from transferring deep ultraviolet lithography machines used to make chips, and similar restrictions will be imposed on Japan's Nikon Corp.
The joint effort is an extension of US President Joe Biden's policy to limit China's ability to manufacture and develop its own semiconductors, which are used for artificial intelligence and machine learning in the military, but will also affect the industry. mobile technology.
American equipment makers complained that barring only American companies from trading with China was affecting their competitiveness, leading the Dutch and Japanese governments to reconsider how ASML, along with Tokyo Electron, were exporting such machinery. Peter Wennink, executive director of ASML, warned that US-led controls on the export of lithography machinery would eventually push China to develop its own advanced technology.
It will take some time, but eventually, they will get to that point.