Japan and the Netherlands have agreed in principle to joining US controls on advanced chipmaking machines to China.
The US rules restricted the supply from American gear suppliers Applied Materials Inc., Lam Research Corp. and KLA Corp. Japan’s Tokyo Electron Ltd. and Dutch lithography specialist ASML Holding NV are the two other critical suppliers that the US needed to make the sanctions effective, making their governments’ adoption of the export curbs a significant milestone. China does not have the capability for a fully domestic development of their chip sector.
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