US Tightens China Chip Curbs by Targeting Design Software
The Trump administration is moving to restrict the sale of chip design software to China, people familiar with the matter said, as the US government evaluates a broader policy announcement on the issue.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security sent letters to at least some of the leading providers of electronic design automation, or EDA, last Friday telling them to halt shipments to Chinese customers, said the people, asking not to be identified because the policy isn't yet public. Top makers of the technology include Cadence Design Systems Inc., Synopsys Inc. and Germany's Siemens AG.
'The Commerce Department is reviewing exports of strategic significance to China,' an agency spokesperson said. 'In some cases, Commerce has suspended existing export licenses or imposed additional license requirements while the review is pending.'
It's unclear how broad the restrictions will be, although it could mean an effective ban on doing business in China, according to one of the people. Synopsys gets about 16% of its revenue from China, while Cadence gets about 12%.
Cadence and Synopsys declined to comment, while Siemens didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The Financial Times reported earlier on the letters.
Washington has employed an escalating approach to curbing Beijing's ambitions to build a domestic semiconductor industry. It started by cutting China off from equipment used to make the most advanced electronic components then gradually broadened the impact of the rules. Software from Cadence and Synopsys is used to design everything from the highest-end processors for the likes of Nvidia Corp. and Apple Inc., as well as simple parts that, for example, regulate power.
The US has also moved to keep the most advanced semiconductors out of China. Nvidia has been the main target of increasingly strict US export controls — in part because its chips are the gold standard for training artificial-intelligence models.
The Trump administration this year banned Nvidia from selling its H20 chips to Chinese customers, the third round of restrictions since 2022. Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang has publicly objected to such restrictions and declared the US policy a 'failure.'
Export controls by the US have emerged as a flashpoint in trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing. Chinese officials claiming that US restrictions — along with efforts to pressure allies not to use Huawei Technologies Co.'s latest Ascend chip — violated the spirit of recent discussions in Geneva aimed at defusing broader tensions over tariffs on the world's second largest economy by President Donald Trump.
With assistance from Ian King and Catherine Lucey.
This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
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