US Designations

Every tracked Chinese semiconductor entity under US export-control designations

Sortable table of all facilities, design firms, and equipment/materials firms on the Commerce/BIS Entity List or DoD Section 1260H list, with dates and sources.
Published

October 11, 2026

Why this page exists

“Entity List” and “Chinese Military Companies list” are used interchangeably in public debate, but they are legally distinct instruments with distinct consequences:

  • Entity List (Commerce/BIS) — an export-control denial order. US and many non-US suppliers need BIS licences (presumed deniable) to sell items subject to the EAR to the listed party. This is the list that stops a fab from buying lithography. Entries marked FN4 additionally carry Footnote 4: the Foreign Direct Product Rule reaches foreign-made chips designed for the listed firm — the tool that caught SMIC’s 7nm effort and the two GPU startups.
  • Section 1260H (Defense/DoD) — a transparency designation of “Chinese military companies.” It bans DoD procurement contracts and channels reputational pressure, but it does not by itself restrict trade in chips or tools. Firms can sit on one list, the other, or both; this tracker records which, exactly, for each entry.

This page lists every designated entity in the tracker, kept distinct, so the difference between blocked from buying tools and named as a military company never gets lost in a headline. A “no designation” entry in the trackers is not a claim that the firm is clean — only that no designation is currently on record.

The register

26 entities are designated: 15 facilities, 8 design firms, 3 equipment/materials firms — including 3 Footnote-4 (FDPR) entries and 1 on the DoD 1260H list. Dates are the designation date on record in the tracker’s data; the underlying citations sit on each entity’s profile page.

NoteHow to read the FN4 column value

Footnote 4 attaches to an entity, but its bite falls on whoever manufactures for that entity — which is why SMIC itself sits on the plain Entity List while Biren and Moore Threads, the designers it cannot openly serve, carry FN4.