Beijing, July 4 -- China's Ministry of Commerce said today that the United States has notified it regarding the removal of certain trade restrictions after the US administration lifted restrictions on exports of chip design software to Beijing.
All three leading chip design software companies- Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens said they were notified by the US Commerce Department that the export curbs introduced in May had been rescinded, said a report by CNN.
The United States cut off sales of critical software tools used to design semiconductors to China in late May, as retaliation for Beijing effectively choking off rare earth exports, which reignited acrimony between the two countries following a trade truce struck in Geneva earlier that ...