US pulls China disks by designing design software

The Trump administration is restricting the sale of Chip design software to China, people who are familiar with the case, as the US government evaluates a broader policy announcement on the issue. The Bureau of Industry and Security of Trading Division told letters to at least some of the leading suppliers of electronic design automation, or EDA, said last Friday to stop them to the Chinese customers, people said and asked not to be identified because the policy is not yet public. The top makers of the technology include Cadence Design Systems Inc., Synopsys Inc. and Siemens of Germany. “The Department of Trade is the export of strategic importance to China,” a agency spokeswoman said. “In some cases, trade has suspended existing export licenses or imposed additional license requirements while reviewing is pending.” It is unclear how wide the restrictions will be, although according to one of the people, it can mean an effective ban on matters in China. Synopsys gets about 16% of its revenue from China, while Cadence gets about 12%. Cadence and Synopsys declined to comment, while Siemens did not respond to a comment immediately. The Financial Times previously reported on the letters. Washington has used an increasing approach to combat Beijing’s ambitions to build a household semiconductor industry. It has begun to cut out China of equipment used to make the most advanced electronic components, and gradually broaden the impact of the rules. Cadence and Synopsys software are used to design everything from the highest end processors for people like Nvidia Corp. and Apple Inc., as well as simple parts that regulate power, for example. The US has also moved to keep the most advanced semiconductors from China. Nvidia was the most important target of increasingly strictly US export controls-deels because the chips are the golden standard for training artificial intelligence models. The Trump administration has banned Nvidia this year to sell its H20 chips to Chinese clients, the third round of restrictions since 2022. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has publicly objected to such restrictions and declared the US policy a ‘failure’. US export control has emerged as a flash point in trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing. Chinese officials who claim that US restrictions – along with attempts to push allies not to Huawei Technologies Co. ‘s latest turnout disc – has violated the spirit of recent discussions in Geneva aimed at defusing broader tensions over tariffs on the world’s second largest economy by President Donald Trump. With the help of Ian King and Catherine Lucey. © 2025 Bloomberg MP This article was generated from an automatic news agency feed without edits to text.