US Lifts Chip Design Export Curbs on China

What's the significance of this backflip. Well, it's a really interesting one, actually, because I think you need to put it in the context of exactly how long it was in place. I mean, it was only at the end of May that US officials sent out these letters to two leading chip design software firms and asked them to stop selling their technology to China.But just this morning we had the announcement from Siemens. They led the charge, of course, the German company, by putting out a statement and saying that, in ...