The four bodies – the Internet Society of China, the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the China Semiconductor Industry Association and the China Association of Communication Enterprises – on Tuesday issued statements within minutes of each other, urging their members to be “cautious” about buying chips from American suppliers, following the Biden administration’s fresh sanctions.
New measures, announced on Monday by the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, impose export restrictions on 24 types of chipmaking equipment and three categories of software essential for semiconductor development.
The new US measures have “substantially harmed the healthy and stable development of China’s internet industry” and shaken the trust and confidence in US chip products, according to the statement from the Internet Society of China.
