Taiwan to Curb AI Chip Exports to China as Part of US Trade Deal: Bloomberg
The move would criminalize unauthorized shipments to China and align some controls with U.S. restrictions, officials said, as Taiwan seeks to curb hardware smuggling.
- Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin announced plans in Taipei to add AI servers and advanced semiconductors to a list of controlled items, aligning Taiwan's export policies with American restrictions.
- American officials have alleged that Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc hardware reached China through black markets, prompting Taipei to develop legal tools for prosecution.
- Currently, Taiwan cannot prosecute unauthorized AI chip exports to China as crimes; once new measures take effect, shipping restricted AI hardware to China will become a criminal offense under the Foreign Trade Act.
- Minister Kung also detailed plans to develop industrial parks in Washington, creating a comprehensive in-country supply chain for Nvidia and other AI hardware makers.
- These controls reflect President Lai Ching-te's administration's efforts to safeguard technological interests while fulfilling commitments made in the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade signed with American officials earlier this year to counter Beijing.
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Smuggling Nvidia Chips Into China Is About to Become a Crime in Taiwan
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In an interview with Bloomberg, Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs, Kung Ming-hsin, said that Taiwan is preparing to tighten export controls on cutting-edge technology products such as artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China in order to counter the U.S. government's restrictions on chip exports to Beijing and work with the Trump administration to combat the smuggling of advanced semiconductor chips to China.
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