The Commerce Department on Tuesday updated and broadened its export controls to stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and the equipment to manufacture them.
The revisions come roughly a year after the export controls were first launched to counter the use of the chips for military applications that include the development of hypersonic missiles and artificial intelligence.
“These export controls are intended to protect technologies that have clear national security or human rights implications,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on a call with reporters. “The vast majority of semiconductors will remain unrestricted. But when we identify national security or human rights threats, we will act decisively and in concert with our allies.”
The department of energy has been working on EUV lithography since the 90’s and currently only one Dutch company has the lithography machines to manufacture current wafers… honestly western countries have been technically working on the current EUV lithography since the 60’s… long way of saying it’s not just smart people it took teams of people decades to get the current tech.