Lawmakers Call for Biden Administration to Protect US Markets Against China’s Legacy Chips

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has urged the Biden administration to take urgent actions targeting Chinese foundational semiconductors. This is to prevent the Chinese regime from dominating the semiconductor market. “While the Administration has taken strong actions to ensure U.S. advanced semiconductor technology is not transferred to [China], far less attention has been given to the risk that a surge of China-made foundational chips poses to U.S. economic security,” the Committee said in a letter dated Jan. 5 to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai. In the letter, Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), the ranking member of the committee, expressed concerns about the potential influx of Chinese-made foundational semiconductors, also known as legacy chips, into the U.S. and global markets. They highlighted that such an influx could undermine U.S. economic security....