U.S. Suppliers Halt Operations at Top Chinese Memory Chip Maker - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

U.S. export power measures restrict companies sending chips and chip-making instrumentality to China.Photo: FLORENCE LO/REUTERS

BEIJING–U.S. spot instrumentality suppliers are pulling retired unit based astatine China’s starring representation spot shaper and pausing concern activities there, according to radical acquainted with the matter, arsenic they unreserved to measure the interaction of Commerce Department semiconductor export restrictions.

State-owned Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. is facing a frost successful enactment from cardinal suppliers including KLA and Lam Research the radical said. The suspensions travel past week’s sweeping curbs imposed by the U.S. connected China’s spot sector, ostensibly to forestall American exertion from advancing China’s subject power, though the interaction mightiness scope further into the industry.