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Indian services giants fight over moonlighting employees

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"The company has been under US sanctions since 2020, thanks to its alleged support of the Chinese military. The sanctions (in theory) prevent the company from making chips based on a 7nm process node. Reports late last month revealed that SMIC has made the forbidden chips in volume since last year."

Forbidden? USA has no jurisdiction in China. The lithography tech needed was barred from entering China.

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