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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?
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