ANALYSIS – Beijing and Chinese industry, indirectly targeted, are looking for a parade.
It is a game of dominoes of which China is the main victim. After the Netherlands a month ago and the United States, it is now Japan’s turn to limit exports of equipment for the manufacture of semiconductors, these critical chips in the development of new technologies. This decision was certainly expected. It aims to reduce China’s production capacity on finely engraved chips, used in supercomputers in particular as well as for artificial intelligence.
If China has big players in the foundry to produce chips, it depends very largely on foreign countries for the design of the machines producing these same semiconductors. “It was important for the United States and the Netherlands that Japan get involved given the importance of Nikon in the deep ultraviolet lithography segment,” says Mathilde Velliet, researcher in the geopolitics of technologies at Ifri.
Like the Dutch government before it, Tokyo…
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