Jahna Hartwig

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Jahna Hartwig |Josephine LeBeau |Alyza Sebenius

As part of its ongoing efforts to thwart China's development of advanced computing technologies, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule (the IFR) last month that both broadens the export licensing requirements for certain advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and imposes new due diligence requirements on front-end fabricators and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test companies (OSATs).