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Automated continuous export compliance proof & personnel-level control over your chip programs.

So you can pass regulatory requirements, while staying focused on production goals.
For semiconductor CEOs, CTOs, VPs, and directors who want to scale out their chip programs compliantly, while staying in control.

  • Interaction-level visibility
  • Automated compliance proof
  • No change to your workflows, no new operations
  • Replaces a $100–200K compliance operations hire
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Regulations are shaping the semiconductor industry

Export control and personnel-level compliance proof is quickly becoming a proactive, system-level requirement for capital and production. How are you handling compliance?

Since 2022, screening, classification, and ownership tracing have become continuous obligations on every chip program. Partners, foundries, acquirers, and investors now ask for dated evidence, and your counsel has to stand behind every determination.

What it means for your business
Incomplete compliance proof jeopardizes business growth and continuity.

Grants, investments, acquisitions, and partners are increasingly requesting ongoing proof of personnel-level access and screening. Partnership eligibility and overall chip production depend on it. Delays in compliance proof mean stalled or abandoned business deals.

Missing compliance proof stalls your production schedule.

Partners increasingly require classification and compliance proof before proceeding; delays cause programs to stall for weeks, threatening your program allocation schedule.

Each violation costs up to $374K, with criminal exposure beyond.

Civil penalties reach $374,474 per violation. When a foreign-national engineer accessed controlled drawings without a license, the release alone was the violation.

What running this by hand costs today.
  • $100–200K for each program lead or compliance ops hire
  • 10–20 hrs/month of senior engineering leadership lost to coordination and compliance prep
  • Months of delayed production if a compliance issue is missed
Fines & Penalties
$300M
Seagate's 2023 BIS penalty for selling to an Entity-List party. The largest standalone fine in BIS history; ZTE reached $1.19B across agencies.
Restricted parties
The change The Entity List runs past 3,000 entries; one December 2024 package added 140. Absence from the list is not permission.
The requirement Every company on the program screened continuously, with dated evidence.
With JINZO Every party screened on arrival and re-screened nightly: screened, no flags.
$500,000
GlobalFoundries' 2024 BIS penalty after $17.1M in wafers shipped to an SMIC affiliate its screening failed to flag.
Ownership tracing
The change The Affiliates Rule: any entity owned 50 percent or more by a listed party carries the same license requirement. Takes effect November 10, 2026.
The requirement Ownership traced for every counterparty, not just a name checked against a list.
With JINZO Ownership tracing on every party, re-run as lists and ownership change.
$374,474
Maximum civil penalty per violation under the EAR. Criminal cases reach $1M in fines and 20 years.
Technology access
The change Deemed export: access to controlled design data by a foreign-national engineer counts as an export to their home country.
The requirement A per-person map of who may access which controlled technology, kept current.
With JINZO Per-person access maps, enforced and logged on the record.
$140.6M
Cadence's 2025 guilty plea for exporting chip-design tools and IP to a restricted Chinese military university. Its own compliance team was kept in the dark.
Design tools and IP
The change Controls now reach EDA software and advanced-node design technology. Classification is a design-time question, not a tape-out question.
The requirement Classification tracked from the start of design, tied to the specs and tools in use.
With JINZO ECCN drafts prepared from program data and routed to your counsel, who signs.

JINZO negates these traps for you. No new hires, operations, or last-minute weeks-long scramble to assemble audit proof.

  • Screening with dated dispositions: screened, no flags
  • Per-person access, enforced and logged
  • All of it on the same program record as the operational work, updated as the program moves
  • Ownership flags on every counterparty
  • Classification drafted from program data
  • Assembled into an audit file on demand
  • Export counsel in the loop
JINZO packages and routes the evidence. Your counsel (or ours) makes the binding determination and signs off.
Regulatory summaries here reflect published BIS rules and are provided for context, not as legal advice. Effective dates and requirements change; your counsel makes the determination for your program.
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The outcomes

How it improves your program

01

Personnel-level audit proof at any time you need it, with no extra work on your end.

Screening, classification, and per-person access are recorded as the program runs, with dated dispositions on every party: Screened, no flags. Who accessed what, and under which grant, assembles into an audit file in minutes.

02

Re-screens and updates your compliance posture every time regulations change.

List additions, ownership changes, and rule updates trigger an overnight rescreen of every party on every program, with the deltas surfaced. Ownership tracing is in place before the Affiliates Rule takes effect.

03

Visibility and control across all your partners, vendors, versioning, and operations.

Every interaction across your customers, IP vendors, foundry, and OSAT is captured live and checked against the current record. Specs, SOWs, and quotes are redlined the moment a revision arrives, so every team builds on the current rev.

04

Scale out production capacity per headcount, stay 100% in control.

Compliance runs automatically and operations stay monitored in the background, so one lead carries more programs without losing sight of any of them. Every decision stays yours.

No new workflows. We customize compliance to your systems.

"Compliance is something that investors and partners ask about more than before. We discussed hiring for compliance operations. Exploring how JINZO automations can save us time and hiring costs first."

CEO · Raising capital and closing customers

"We know we're expected to manage compliance at an operational level now but the team doesn't have time to add more software tools to our work. It's promising that JINZO works as an augmentation of our existing processes, so the team doesn't have to spend time managing another tool or meeting with an ops person."

CTO · Managing and scaling multiple chip programs and partners

From design partner conversations.

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How are you handling compliance?

Tell us about your chip program on a 30-minute call. We map where your programs carry export exposure today based on your chip classification, you see how JINZO automates compliance workflows in tools, and you leave with a written summary of the gaps we found and recommendations on how to fix them.

00:00
Your program
We ask you a few questions about your program, stage, goals, and problem areas.
00:10
Exposure analysis
We find out which areas are exposed today: partner screening, chip classification, ownership tracing, and per-person access.
00:15
The demo
We show you how JINZO automates compliance operations and program visibility from within your tools through a quick demo.
00:25
What happens next
We discuss whether JINZO can help your compliance and program operations, and what else you might like to see.
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