Netherlands will soon join the United
States and Japan in rolling out new semiconductor export control measures
aimed at keeping sensitive technology away from China due to concern for
potential misuse, the country’s economic affairs minister told reporters on a
visit to Washington, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
As per VOA, the measures are likely to further restrict sales to China by
Netherlands-based ASML, maker of the world’s most advanced chip-printing
machines, which last year disclosed the “unauthorized misappropriation of
data” by a now former employee in China.
The US in October 2022, announced its own export control measures affecting advanced computing integrated circuits and
certain semiconductor manufacturing items.
The country said the measures were aimed at items that “could provide direct contributions to advancing military decision
making” such as “designing and testing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), producing semiconductors for use in advanced
military systems, and developing advanced surveillance systems that can be used for military applications and human rights
abuses.”
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