{"id":991960,"date":"2026-02-14T08:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991960"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:40:04","slug":"applied-materials-to-pay-252-million-over-illegal-exports-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/applied-materials-to-pay-252-million-over-illegal-exports-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Materials to pay $252 million over illegal exports to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced a $252 million settlement with Applied Materials for illegally exporting chipmaking equipment to China&#8217;s top chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. <\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Reuters exclusively reported that Applied Materials was under US \u200ccriminal investigation \u2060for \u2060producing semiconductor equipment in Massachusetts, then shipping the equipment to a subsidiary in South \u200bKorea, before sending it on to SMIC in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced a $252 million settlement with Applied Materials for illegally exporting chipmaking equipment to China&#8217;s top chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. In 2023, Reuters exclusively reported that Applied Materials was under US \u200ccriminal investigation \u2060for \u2060producing semiconductor equipment in Massachusetts, then shipping the equipment to a subsidiary in South \u200bKorea, before sending it on to SMIC in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991960","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}