NEW YORK, December 2. /TASS/. The US plans to curb supplies of its products to 140 Chinese companies as part of its crackdown on China's semiconductor industry, Reuters reported citing two people familiar with the matter.

The package includes curbs on China-bound shipments of high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, critical for high-end applications like AI training; new curbs on 24 additional chipmaking tools and three software tools; and new export curbs on chipmaking equipment made in countries such as Singapore and Malaysia, the agency said. Among Chinese companies facing new restrictions are nearly two dozen semiconductor companies, two investment companies and over 100 chipmaking tool makers, the sources said. In particular, the decision will affect such corporations as Naura Technology Group, Piotech, and SiCarrier Technology.

Some of the companies, including Swaysure Technology Co, Qingdao SiEn, and Shenzhen Pensun Technology Co, work with China's Huawei Technologies, once hobbled by US sanctions and now at the center of China's advanced chip production and development, Reuters said. They will be added to the entity list, which bars US suppliers from shipping to them without first receiving a special license. Moreover, the US is poised to place additional restrictions on Semiconductor Manufacturing International, China's largest contract chip manufacturer.

The new rule will expand US powers to curb exports of chipmaking equipment by US, Japanese, and Dutch manufacturers made in other parts of the world to certain chip plants in China, the agency said. Equipment made in Israel, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan is subject to the rule while Japan and the Netherlands will be exempt.