Hong Kong, April 4 (ANI): China has launched a cybersecurity probe into Micron Technology, considered one of America’s largest reminiscence chipmakers, in obvious retaliation after US allies in Asia and Europe introduced new restrictions on the sale of key expertise to Beijing, in keeping with a CNN Business report.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) will evaluate merchandise bought by Micron within the nation, in keeping with a press release by the watchdog late on Friday.
The transfer is geared toward “ensuring the security of key information infrastructure supply chains, preventing cybersecurity risks caused by hidden product problems, and maintaining national security,” the assertion famous.
It got here on the identical day that Japan, a US ally, mentioned it might limit the export of superior chip manufacturing gear to international locations together with China, following comparable strikes by the US and the Netherlands.
Washington and its allies have introduced curbs on China’s semiconductor trade, which strike on the coronary heart of Beijing’s bid to change into a tech superpower, CNN Business reported.
Kyodo News quoting diplomatic sources on Sunday mentioned US President Joe Biden might go to a state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing unit run by Micron Technology in western Japan in the course of the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Hiroshima in May.
The G-7 group consists of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and the European Union.
Biden, together with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will go to the plant run by Micron Technology Inc’s Japanese unit, in keeping with Kyodo News’ sources, as an indication of their deepening bilateral collaboration within the semiconductor trade. The US authorities is providing enormous subsidies to develop the home chip enterprise as a result of it views it as essential to nationwide safety and as giving the US a bonus over China.
Last month, the Netherlands additionally unveiled new restrictions on abroad gross sales of semiconductor expertise, citing the necessity to shield nationwide safety, in keeping with CNN Business. In October, the US banned Chinese firms from shopping for superior chips and chipmaking gear with out a license.
Micron instructed CNN it was conscious of the evaluate. (ANI)