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Can anyone inform me regarding the purpose of preventing China from producing these more advanced chips? Is it protectionism? Is it anti-China policy? Is there some kind of particular military application?
If China can make their own advanced chips they have no reason to hold back against Taiwan.
If they are forced to make their own chips, that means they have to focus on that instead of other technologies…is an argument I’ve heard that has some merit.
China imports 70% of their chips and 90% of their most advanced chips from Taiwan, it's called the silicon shield. China makes 16% of their chips domestically.
As long as China is dependent on Taiwan for chip manufacturing they cannot invade.
This is why China achieving chip self-reliance is such a scary prospect, the US will defend Taiwan militarily because they are also reliant on them for their chips.
Most likely it’s to prevent something like this from happening:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
Likely moreso focused on government secrets than corporate ones, but same idea
Edit: Non-paywalled link:
https://archive.ph/2022.11.19-173201/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
And I'm guessing a smaller chip makes it even harder to detect. Makes sense. Thank you
Lots of reasons, Chinese knockoffs hurting US chip R&D, Chinese knockoffs with backdoors that compromise national security, lack of domestic production options which puts the US in danger of being cut off from chips at war time (and chips are used in everything from domestic devices to military devices/weapons systems).
Imagine if the Chinese government could just remote command and control some percentage of the military's weapon systems and make them fire on the US homeland because the chips have backdoors. Or imagine if they could intercept critical military or otherwise wartime communications. Even beyond military uses, chips could be used for corporate espionage revealing trade secrets further accelerating China's ability to create knockoff products.
Meh
US acting like world police any time some country gets to play catch up and use their rule book. The day they limit NSA scans to traffic in their own country I'll take their claims at face value.
backdoors that compromise ~~national~~ a certain country security
Fixed that for you.
In the mean time I get to "enjoy" backdoors made by both US and China.