China has quietly extended its rare-earth export controls into the heart of the semiconductor supply chain. Based on machine translation of a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/art/2025/art_7fc9bff0fb4546ecb02f66ee77d0e5f6.html” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/art/2025/art_7fc9bff0fb4546ecb02f66ee77d0e5f6.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>new notice published October 9, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said that exports of Chinese-origin rare earths or products made with them will now require government licenses if they’re linked to the development or manufacture of advanced chips — defined as logic at 14 nanometers or below, or memory with 256 layers or more.
The new measure builds on data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-rare-earth-export-restrictions-threaten-global-chipmaking-supply-chains” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-rare-earth-export-restrictions-threaten-global-chipmaking-supply-chains”>rules…
