File photo: The US has fined two Chinese firms for buying US chip equipment for China’s top chipmaker Smic. | Photo credit: Reuters
The United States on Friday sanctioned two Chinese firms that purchased U.S. chip equipment from China’s top chipmaker SMIC, including them among 32 entities added to the Commerce Department’s restricted trade list, according to a U.S. government designation. Twenty-three of the 32 were in China.
GMC Semiconductor Technology (Wuxi) Co. and Jicun Semiconductor Technology were included in the list, officially known as the Entity List, to purchase equipment from SMIC North Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (Beijing) Corporation and Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation, the Federal Register report said.
SMIC companies were already on the company list, and shipping equipment to the US requires licenses that would likely be denied.
Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Technology Co, which is involved in the production of high-performance computing chips, as well as associated companies and other entities in China, Singapore and Taiwan, were added to the list for acquiring US-origin items “in support of China’s military modernization, for participating in China’s advanced computing and integrated manufacturing and distribution sectors, and directly supplying the military, government, and security apparatus of China.”
Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics has also supplied technology to Russian military end users, the Commerce Department says, which is an additional restriction on the company.
The companies could not immediately be reached for comment.
Units from India, Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates were also added to the list, the posting showed.
Published – September 13, 2025 10:29 AM IST
