A Chinese national on Oct. 17 pleaded guilty to illegally exporting U.S. semiconductor equipment to a U.S.-sanctioned company in China, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.
Chen Lin, 65, admitted to knowingly attempting to buy a wafer-cutting machine with the intent to sell to a Chinese company on the Entity List, an export blacklist maintained by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), according to a statement issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 17.
Wafer-cutting machines are precision tools used in the semiconducting manufacturing process to cut semiconductor wafers into smaller pieces….
Chinese National Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Illegally Export US Semiconductor Technology to China
