CHOKEPOINT
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ENTITY · alibaba
Deal-Killer · Procurement Veto
Alibaba Group is itself sanctioned (NDAA-1260H); direct suppliers sanctioned: SMIC [BIS-EntityList, NDAA-1260H, NDAA-CMIC], JCET Group [BIS-EntityList].

Alibaba GroupBABA

China·hyperscaler·major·$256.9B mkt cap

Chinese cloud leader; T-Head designs Yitian CPUs and Hanguang AI chips.

WATCH · 40–69
58/100 illustrative
Underwriting Thesis

CRITICAL — Alibaba Group is itself sanctioned (NDAA-1260H); direct suppliers sanctioned: SMIC [BIS-EntityList, NDAA-1260H, NDAA-CMIC], JCET Group [BIS-EntityList]. A sanctioned node in the immediate supply path is a binary procurement risk that overrides all favorable factors.

Factor Breakdown
Foreign-Origin Concentration85
Sole-Source Dependence30
Sanctions Exposure100
Downstream Criticality0
Sanctions Exposure
NDAA-1260H
DoD Exposure

No matched DoD semiconductor awards (USASpending) for this entity.

Segments
hyperscalercustom silicon
Possible substitutes · same commodity buckets
Chokepoint Relationships

Key Suppliers · upstream · 7

Key Customers · downstream · 0

No mapped downstream customers.
Data Provenance· generated 2026-08-10 01:06:49Z
  • Consolidated Screening List (CSL) [LIVE] https://data.trade.gov/downloadable_consolidated_screening_list/v1/consolidated.json @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.039Z
  • USASpending.gov — DoD award search [LIVE] https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.377Z
  • Curated ownership aggregation [FALLBACK] @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.378Z
  • Curated China-ecosystem + Nexperia edges (Phase B, CSET ETO + TechInsights + TrendForce + SCMP + BIS Entity List + Nexperia press release) [FALLBACK] @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.378Z

Firm/commodity-level signals from public data — not component-level BOM. Scores are an analytic underwriting heuristic, not legal or procurement advice.