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U.S. ITC reaffirmed Innoscience infringed an Infineon GaN patent, imposing import and sales bans on the Chinese developer.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because China just extended export controls to the equipment that makes gallium and germanium chips while the US locked down sub-14nm tool sales — a two-way choke that is already delaying compound-semiconductor parts for Western defense and power-electronics makers.
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semiengineering.com — Chip Industry Week In Review
"The U.S. ITC reaffirmed a previous patent finding that Innoscience infringed on an Infineon patent concerning GaN technology, resulting in import and sales bans against the Chinese semiconductor developer."
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from semiengineering.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 10.
Extracted JUL 10; approved JUL 10 at 0.62.
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