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The US side makes no bones about the core mission of Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez's planned visits to the Netherlands and Japan early next month. The intention is to press the two US allies to further tighten and expand their implementation of the United States' ban on high-end chip and equipment exports to China. The requirements are concrete: adding another 11 Chinese companies to the current list consisting of five prohibited enterprises; extending the exports ban to high-bandwidth memory chips needed for the development of artificial intelligence; and scrapping all servicing contracts related to high-end chips between their companies, in particular ASML and Tokyo Electron, and their Chinese partners. The reason why the Republic of Korea does not appear in the US export control policy chief's itinerary is because its major HBM chipmakers, including SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology, mainly rely on equipment from ASML and Tokyo
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