The Biden administration is looking into claims that Yangtze Memory Technologies Co, a Chinese semiconductor maker, has supplied Huawei with chips, in a potential violation of US export controls.
The White House and US Department of Commerce have received copies of a report that claimed Huawei, the Chinese telecoms equipment supplier that Washington believes is helping Beijing to conduct espionage, was using YMTC memory chips in a new smartphone, according to three people familiar with the case.
One US official said the commerce department’s Bureau of Industry and Security had received a “credible” report by TechInsights, a firm that analyses the components inside consumer electronics.