{"id":179696,"date":"2024-01-02T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/can-this-startup-help-china-break-through-us-chip-restrictions"},"modified":"2024-01-02T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:23:29","slug":"can-this-startup-help-china-break-through-us-chip-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/can-this-startup-help-china-break-through-us-chip-restrictions","title":{"rendered":"Can this startup help China break through US chip restrictions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-this-startup-help-china-break-through-us-chip-restrictions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US is trying its best to slow China down.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>However, an equally serious challenger has now emerged in the form of SEIDA, a Chinese startup founded by a veteran Silicon Valley software executive.<\/p>\n<p>Liguo \u201cRecoo\u201d Zhang, the CEO of SEIDA, and three other Chinese-born colleagues left Siemens EDA, a U.S. unit of Siemens AG, aiming to break the foreign monopoly on Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) technology, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/us-wants-contain-chinas-chip-industry-this-startup-shows-it-wont-be-easy-2023-12-29\/\" title=\"Reuters\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The OPC tool is indispensable for designing advanced chips crucial for emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing. SEIDA\u2019s bold pitch attracted powerful Chinese investors, including Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), a leading Chinese microchip maker with alleged ties to China\u2019s military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is trying its best to slow China down. However, an equally serious challenger has now emerged in the form of SEIDA, a Chinese startup founded by a veteran Silicon Valley software executive. Liguo \u201cRecoo\u201d Zhang, the CEO of SEIDA, and three other Chinese-born colleagues left Siemens EDA, a U.S. unit of Siemens AG, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}