{"id":983204,"date":"2026-01-03T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983204"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:20:13","slug":"samsung-and-other-korean-companies-get-us-approval-to-bring-chip-making-tools-into-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/samsung-and-other-korean-companies-get-us-approval-to-bring-chip-making-tools-into-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung and other Korean companies get US approval to bring chip-making tools into China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has approved annual export licences to allow Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to ship chipmaking equipment to their China facilities throughout 2026. A Reuters report, citing people familiar with the decision, said the approvals came just before a long-standing waiver system expired, marking a shift to a more restrictive licensing framework for foreign-owned fabs in China. Under the new system, the US has formally moved to annual approvals for chipmaking tool exports into China, replacing the validated end-user status that Samsung, SK Hynix and TSMC previously enjoyed. The yearly licences must be renewed each calendar year, the Reuters report claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has approved annual export licences to allow Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to ship chipmaking equipment to their China facilities throughout 2026. A Reuters report, citing people familiar with the decision, said the approvals came just before a long-standing waiver system expired, marking a shift to a more restrictive licensing framework for foreign-owned fabs in China. Under the new system, the US has formally moved to annual approvals for chipmaking tool exports into China, replacing the validated end-user status that Samsung, SK Hynix and TSMC previously enjoyed. The yearly licences must be renewed each calendar year, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}