A group of House Republican leaders have called on the Commerce Department to implement full sanctions on two leading Chinese technology companies after they surprised the world with an advanced semiconductor.
Huawei last week released the Mate 60 Pro, a mobile device with an installed 7-nanometer 5G Kirin 9000s processor. The chip production surprised national security experts, who believed that China lacked the necessary tools to produce such technology due to U.S. sanctions, including ones imposed by President Joe Biden in October 2022.
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The Commerce Department subsequently announced that it had launched a probe into the device. On Thursday, a group of 10 prominent Republican U.S. representatives sent a letter to Commerce Under Secretary Alan Estevez to demand answers about whether there were breaches in U.S. export controls…
