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Exclusive-US orders chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's No. 2 chipmaker Hua Hong

The U.S. Department of Commerce last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt certain tool shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong, its latest action to slow the country's development of advanced chips, according to two people familiar with the matter. The department sent letters ‌to at least a handful of companies informing them of the new restrictions on tools and other materials destined for two Hua Hong facilities that U.S. ‌officials believe may make China's most sophisticated chips, the people said. Top U.S. chip equipment companies Lam Research, Applied Materials and KLA, each of which has significant business supplying China, were among those believed to have received a ​letter, the sources added.

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U.S. orders chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's Hua Hong

The move is the latest U.S. action to slow China's development of advanced chips, two people familiar with the matter said.

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