US EditionTSMC Warns of Limits of Ability to Keep Its AI Chips From China
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Madrid. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of microchips and supplier of Apple and Nvidia, warned of the risks of escalation of tensions due to tariffs and other restrictions imposed by the United States and the potential response of affected countries, including China, as well as of the difficulties in ensuring strict compliance with the export limitations implemented by the United States.
TSMC Warns of Limits of Ability to Keep Its AI Chips From China
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. listed the challenges of ensuring export control compliance by its customers, months after the company’s artificial intelligence silicon was found to have flowed to US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies Co. via intermediaries.
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TSMC admits struggle to limit access to chips
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) highlighted the difficulty it faces in tracking which companies use its chips, pointing to limited visibility in the overall supply chain to keep its silicon out of products made by sanctioned companies. In its 2024 annual report, the contract chipmaker noted its role in the chip supply chain “inherently limits its visibility and information available to it regarding the downstream use or user of fina…
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