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A report released this week showed that despite Washington's new export restrictions to curb advances in China's semiconductor industry, Chinese companies are still buying U.S. chipmaking equipment
Last October, the Biden administration published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut off China from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools, vastly expanding the reach of a bid to slow Beijing's technological and military advances.
The US Commerce Department has discussed details with the South Korean chipmakers on which equipment could be used in China, said news agency Yonhap, citing unnamed sources, adding that the US would make related announcements as early as this week.