The former chief executive of nexperia, a dutch chipmaker, said dutch officials had known for years that the company’s chinese owner sought to move its technology to china. The netherlands has aligned with broader european and american efforts to restrict certain semiconductor technologies from transfer to china, implementing more rigorous review mechanisms for foreign acquisitions and export controls on advanced chip manufacturing equipment. Four men were indicted on federal criminal charges related to a plot to export nvidia chips worth millions of dollars to china and hong kong
The chips are highly restricted from exports. Operation gatekeeper revealed a sc They tried to export more than $160 million in advanced computer chips to china.
