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Export Controls

Export controls on AI chips and computing infrastructure, with designation records and semiconductor trade data.

40 of 3,420 active Entity List designations have matches in the compute dataset

3,435

The Entity List

Designations in 85 countries, including removed entries. Each active entry specifies its own licence requirements.

3,420

Active

The 15 removed or expired designations appear as faint marks at the upper right.

40

Matched to the compute dataset

1.2% of the active list, with 41 matches by name or corporate relationship. A designation can match several organisations. Of these matches, 38 involve organisations with supply-chain records.

39

Confirmed

Highest match score of 0.85 or above.

1

Screening lead

Highest match score from 0.60 to below 0.85. Check the designation and supporting records before citing the match.

0

Under review

Highest match score below 0.60. These provisional matches remain in the register for review.

Plate I. One equal-sized mark per designation. Matches are grouped at the lower left and removed designations at the upper right. Colour shows the highest match score for each designation, using the categories in the key.

No match was found for 3,380 active designations.

All recorded designationsincludes removed entries
3,435
With recorded corporate chainsat least one chain on record · snapshot 2026-09-24
699 · 20.3%
Matched through corporate relationshipsdesignations with an active corporate-chain match in the compute dataset
1 · 0.03%
Percentages use all recorded designations as the denominator, including removed entries. The middle row is a dated snapshot; the other counts are from the latest database read. Name matching is independent of these chains and accounts for 40 active matches, counted separately.
41 of 41 matches

83 further countries appear in the designation records with no match in Scrutica’s compute dataset.

CountryStanding
Northwestern Polytechnical University CN100% exact matchConfirmed1
CloudWalk Technology → CloudWalk Technology ACN100% token overlapConfirmed5
Piotech CN100% exact matchConfirmed3
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology → Skolkovo Institute Of Science And TechnologyRU100% exact matchConfirmed1
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Tianjin) Corporation → SMICCN100% overrideConfirmed130
4Paradigm Technology Co., Ltd → 4paradigmCN100% token overlapConfirmed1
Peng Cheng Laboratory CN100% exact matchConfirmed1
Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. → Beijing E-Town Semiconductor ACN100% token overlapConfirmed1
Beijing Lingxin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. → Beijing Lingxin Intelligent Technology CoCN100% token overlapConfirmed1
Dahua Technology CN100% exact matchConfirmed1
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. CN100% exact matchConfirmed2
HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd (HiSilicon) → HiSiliconCN100% token overlapConfirmed6
QuantumCTek Co., Ltd. → Quantumctek ACN100% token overlapConfirmed6
Sichuan University CN100% exact matchConfirmed1
Sino IC Technology Co., Ltd. → Sino Ic Technology Co LtdCN100% exact matchConfirmed2
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shenzhen) Corporation → SMICCN100% overrideConfirmed130
Dongfang Jingyuan Electron Co., Ltd. → Dongfang Jingyuan Electron Ltd.CN100% token overlapConfirmed1
Tianjin University CN100% exact matchConfirmed1
Loongson Technology → LoongsonCN100% token overlapConfirmed3
Intellifusion CN100% exact matchConfirmed1
Showing 20 of 41

Cross-reference changes

last 30 days · 0 matches added · −135 deprecated
2026-09-25deprecatedBeijing Huawei Digital Technologies Co., Ltd.→ HiSilicon2026-09-25deprecatedGui'an New District Huawei Investment Co., Ltd.→ HiSilicon2026-09-25deprecatedHuawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.→ HiSilicon2026-09-25deprecatedHuawei Device (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.→ HiSilicon2026-09-25deprecatedHuawei Machine Co., Ltd.→ HiSilicon

The newest 101 of 135 match events in the window were written together, at 17:46 UTC on 25 September 2026; the 5 with the highest match scores are shown. A match event is a designation newly joined to, or dropped from, a tracked organization. The Entity List’s own additions and removals are on the change log.

Rules in force

reviewed 7 September 2026

On 13 May 2025 BIS announced that it would not enforce the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule (the three-tier country framework, effective 13 January 2025 with compliance due from 15 May) and would rescind it by regulation; no replacement rule has been recorded. The October 2022 and October 2023 advanced-computing rules remain in force. The January 2026 rule opened case-by-case review for qualifying exports from the United States to China and Macau, bounded by TPP and DRAM-bandwidth ceilings that the H200 and MI325X fall under; chips above them, the Blackwell class included, stay under a presumption of denial. The UAE moved from Country Groups D:3 and D:4 to A:5 on 10 July 2026, with licence relief for advanced-computing items where the ultimate consignee and every end user hold supplement no. 8 approval, and Part 744 controls intact.

In May 2025 the Commerce Department announced that it would not enforce the 2025 AI Diffusion Rule, the three-tier country framework, and would formally rescind it; no replacement has been issued. The October 2022 and October 2023 restrictions remain in force: the most capable AI chips need a licence to go to China, and for chips above the ceilings set in January 2026, the Blackwell generation included, licences are expected to be refused, a presumption of denial rather than a prohibition. Chips under those ceilings, the H200 and MI325X among them, have been reviewed case by case since January 2026. The United Arab Emirates moved in July 2026 to the country group covering close allies, with licence relief for a named list of approved recipients where every end user is approved.

Renaming after designation

Culper Research’s 13 May 2026 short thesis reports that Aivres Systems was renamed from Inspur Systems in May 2023, after Inspur Group’s designation. The cited licensed corporate-ownership record, dated 14 May 2026, retains the former name and identifies it as a direct subsidiary of IEIT Systems Co., Ltd.

The licensed listing records report 33.26% "Private Company" insider ownership for IEIT Systems (000977-CN) and 50.88% "Government" insider ownership for Inspur International (596-HK). These percentages describe shareholders in two different issuers; neither measures a designated entity’s ownership of Aivres. Source: licensed corporate database.

Inspur International · 596-HK · “Government” insiders50.88%
IEIT Systems · 000977-CN · “Private Company” insiders33.26%
Inspur International · 596-HK“Government” insiders50.88%IEIT Systems · 000977-CN“Private Company” insiders33.26%
Insider-ownership categories as recorded for each issuer: "Government" for Inspur International (596-HK), "Private Company" for IEIT Systems (000977-CN).

How a match is made

cascade last refreshed 2026-09-02

1 · Name similarity

Name matching uses exact names, aliases, token overlap (Jaccard) and fuzzy trigram similarity, with country filters. Common corporate, geographic and industry terms are excluded from token comparisons. No name match with a score below 0.70 is retained.

40 active matches were found by name. The register’s score categories apply to both name matches and corporate relationships: Confirmed at 0.85 or above, Screening lead from 0.60 to below 0.85, and Under review below 0.60. Corporate relationships receive fixed scores of 0.90, 0.70 or 0.55 for high, medium or low confidence, respectively. These scores are not probabilities. The Ownership Investigator uses a separate minimum score of 0.90 for direct designation matches.

2 · Corporate relationships

Corporate matching starts from the ownership record that carries a designated entity’s exact name in its own country and follows its recorded subsidiaries down to a company in the compute dataset, taking at most one further subsidiary link from another ownership record. A separate subsidiary search starts from a name match and follows at most six links. There is 1 active match between 1 designation and 1 organisation in the compute dataset. The match does not establish an ownership percentage or determine whether the same export restrictions apply. The Affiliates Rule is suspended through 9 November 2026; other Part 744 controls may still apply.

Cascade confidence: high, every link is a recorded subsidiary relation (1); medium, the last link is a further subsidiary relation from another ownership record (0); low, that further link extends a chain already at medium, marked under review (0).

Example: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) to HiSilicon (1 relationship, high confidence; data vintage 2026-04-24).

  1. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) — subsidiary, read from the parent record, recorded corporate chain — HiSilicon

The register export includes each chain’s relationships, sources and confidence grades. Names available only from licensed records are withheld.

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