Latest US concessions over chip kit in China add to the confusion

Two South Korean chip makers are now allowed to use their own kit in Chinese factories without getting permission from the US each time.
Yonhap News reports ‘The United States has decided to allow exports of its semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix factories in China without a separate approval process’. Those factories mainly make flash memory and DRAM chips, which presumably fall short of being technologies the US is trying to prevent China from