The US government may introduce a new series of sanctions affecting at least 200 domestic chip makers in China, per a report from Reuters. These new regulations came to light in an e-mail by the US Chamber of Commerce to its members – the largest lobbying group in the US – also hinting at a forthcoming ban-hammer on the export of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). For the past few years, the US and China have waged a chip war, and recent policies have limited the export of equipment manufactured on US soil. These policies have not only thrown a wrench in China’s ambitions to rise to the highest ranks in the semiconductor world but also the finances of global players like Nvidia, who are barred from exporting high-performance GPUs to China. Nonetheless, China is ambitiously working hard to achieve a sort of chip-autarky, but that comes with its own set of caveats, as it’d not only have to design its chips but also manufacture them. The update sheds light on the Biden administration’s recent efforts to impose stricter regulations on chip manufacturers in China. The latest swarm of sanctions reportedly targets roughly 200 Chinese firms, and US companies are prohibited from exporting select technologies or products to them.

Full report : US Department of Commerce to push new sanctions on Chinese chip firms before the Thanksgiving break – or November 28.