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US restricts EDA software sales to China, re-raising US-China tensions

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What happened: The FT is reporting that the Trump administration has directed US companies providing electronic design automation (EDA) software to halt sales to Chinese firms in a further effort to constrain China’s chip development capabilities.

The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry...