By Karen Freifeld
(Reuters) -Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) has agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle with the U.S. Division of Commerce for transport gadgets to China’s Huawei Applied sciences in violation of export laws, in accordance with a division order posted on Wednesday.
AOS engaged in prohibited conduct by forwarding 1,650 energy controllers, good energy phases and associated equipment to Huawei with out authorization in 2019, the yr Huawei was added to a restricted U.S. commerce record, the order stated.
Although the gadgets had been foreign-designed and produced, the order stated, they had been topic to export management laws as a result of AOS exported them from the US. Suppliers to corporations on the restricted commerce record, referred to as the Entity Record, are required to acquire licenses.
“This decision doesn’t impression AOS’s ongoing enterprise operations and brings to an finish the U.S. authorities’s five-year-plus investigation,” the corporate stated. “AOS is happy to carry this matter to an in depth with solely restricted administrative export management costs.”
U.S. authorities have been investigating AOS’ transactions with Huawei since 2019, the corporate stated in an SEC submitting earlier this yr. In January 2024 the Justice Division closed its investigation with out costs, the submitting stated, however a civil investigation by the Commerce Division was ongoing.
On April 16, 2025, AOS stated it acquired a letter from Commerce alleging violations of export management laws, and the corporate met to debate a attainable decision.
AOS, which is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, operates in each the US and Asia. It has a wafer fabrication facility in Hillsboro, Oregon.
In 2020, the US added to Huawei’s Entity itemizing to increase its authority to cease shipments of foreign-produced gadgets to Huawei.
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld; Enhancing by Mark Porter and Jamie Freed)
