China's Sicarrier unit unveils new chip design software, media reports

BEIJING (Reuters) -A subsidiary of SiCarrier, a Chinese chip equipment maker with close links to Huawei, unveiled two domestically developed software products for semiconductor designs, the latest move by China to reduce reliance on foreign technologies. Yunqifang, a subsidiary of Shenzhen-based SiCarrier, released two electronic design engineering (EDA) software products with fully independent intellectual property rights, Chinese state-backed media the Paper reported. EDA software is crucial for designing blueprints of sophisticated semiconductors. Earlier this year, the U.S. had temporarily imposed restrictions on exports to China for chip design software developers in response to China's export suspension of rare earths and related magnets. Analysts had warned that long-term U.S. restr