Subject type: Commercial surveillance technology vendor Jurisdiction: Israel Also known as: NSO Group Technologies, Q Cyber Technologies File opened: 8 September 2026 Last updated: 8 September 2026 Origin NSO Group was founded in 2010 in Herzliya by Niv Carmi, Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, whose initials give the company its name. Its product, Pegasus, is an intrusion suite … [Read more...] about NSO Group: Pegasus, Ownership Changes and the Regulatory Position of Commercial Spyware
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YMTC: Yangtze Memory Technologies, NAND Capability and Entity List Exposure
Subject type: Memory manufacturer, state-backed Jurisdiction: People's Republic of China Also known as: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co, 长江存储 File opened: 31 August 2026 Last updated: 31 August 2026 Origin YMTC was founded in 2016 in Wuhan, built around Tsinghua Unigroup and state investment funds, with the explicit objective of giving China a domestic NAND flash producer. … [Read more...] about YMTC: Yangtze Memory Technologies, NAND Capability and Entity List Exposure
SMIC: China’s Largest Foundry, Process Capability and the Limits of Export Control
Subject type: Semiconductor foundry, state-backed Jurisdiction: People's Republic of China Also known as: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, 中芯国际 File opened: 29 August 2026 Last updated: 29 August 2026 Origin SMIC was founded in 2000 in Shanghai by Richard Chang, a Taiwan-born executive who had worked at Texas Instruments, with capital from international … [Read more...] about SMIC: China’s Largest Foundry, Process Capability and the Limits of Export Control