South Korea: Caught in the Crosshairs of U.S.−China Competition Over Semiconductors

officials reportedly shared classified information with the Dutch government as part of the effort to compel The Hague to deny the license.15 SK hynix may also have attempted to get a license for its Wuxi facility, but this was also apparently torpedoed by the Dutch government, likely at the behest of the U. [...] The October Package: South Korean Firms and Facilities in China among First Collateral Damage In any case, even before the much more controversial elements of the October Package impacted the operations of multinationals in China manufacturing memory, the key firms already faced a major disruption of their roadmaps to upgrade China-based facilities with EUV seemingly off the table for China. [...] In retaliation for the inclusion of memory leader YMTC on the Entity List in December 2022, and the impact of the October Package on YMTC, China launched a cybersecurity probe of U. [...] The future role of South Korean companies in the China market will remain complex, and a function of a number of different considerations, both at the corporate level, and within the South Korean government. [...] Hardware teardowns of the phone revealed that some of the NAND and DRAM used in the phone came from SK hynix, and the firm has launched an investigation of how SK hynix memory ended up in the Huawei device.32 It appears that the memory in question was stockpiled by Huawei, sometime in the 2020 period, and SK hynix has insisted that it has complied with U.