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 delivery objects to China’s Huawei Applied sciences in violation of export laws, based on 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 12 months Huawei was added to a restricted U.S. commerce listing, the order stated.
Although the objects 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 USA. Suppliers to corporations on the restricted commerce listing, referred to as the Entity Record, are required to acquire licenses.
“This decision doesn’t affect 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 deliver this matter to an in depth with solely restricted administrative export management prices.”
U.S. authorities have been investigating AOS’ transactions with Huawei since 2019, the corporate stated in an SEC submitting earlier this 12 months. In January 2024 the Justice Division closed its investigation with out prices, the submitting stated, however a civil investigation by the Commerce Division was ongoing.
On April 16, 2025, AOS stated it obtained a letter from Commerce alleging violations of export management laws, and the corporate met to debate a potential decision.
AOS, which is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, operates in each the USA and Asia. It has a wafer fabrication facility in Hillsboro, Oregon.
In 2020, the USA added to Huawei’s Entity itemizing to develop its authority to cease shipments of foreign-produced objects to Huawei.
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld; Enhancing by Mark Porter and Jamie Freed)
