U.S. regulator blocks two devices with Huawei chips in its first use of a rule that bars devices containing chips and other logic-bearing parts from firms on its Covered List. Unitree says it has built 10,000 to 20,000 G1 humanoids, which founder Wang Xingxing called the most shipped single humanoid model worldwide, even as he called the company's current output "far from enough." China's Foreign Ministry rejects U.S. biotech curbs after Treasury proposed Thursday to restrict U.S. investment in Chinese biotechnology, a week after Beijing proposed export controls on five biomedical technologies of its own. YMTC reportedly plans to mass-produce high-speed phone memory, moving the flash storage maker into direct competition with Samsung and Micron.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC, blocked a dashcam and a wireless video transmitter containing chips from Huawei's HiSilicon unit. It is the first action under a rule in force since Oct. 13 that bars devices containing chips and other logic-bearing parts from firms on the FCC's Covered List of security risks, extending U.S. restrictions on Chinese tech from whole devices to the components inside them. The FCC cited HiSilicon's own marketing, which describes the chip as "designed for the surveillance market" with built-in face detection algorithms. Beijing has repeatedly accused Washington of stretching the concept of national security to suppress Chinese companies and argues that protectionism will not make the U.S. more competitive.
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