Taiwan blacklists China’s Huawei and SMIC, aligning more with U.S. policy
For the last few years, the US has put large chip export restrictions on Huawei and Chinese companies. This has interrupted companies’ access to critical semiconductors.
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Taiwan added China’s Huawei and SMIC to the trade black list with a movement in the midst of increasing tensions with Beijing.
Taiwan, two leading Chinese chip companies “Strategic High Technology Commodity Asset List“With many of the international subsidiaries.
Taiwan’s current regulations require licenses from regulators to send products to the parties called in the product list of domestic companies.
One expression On the website, the Taiwan International Trade Administration, Huawei and SMIC’in arms proliferation activities and other national security concerns, because of the participation of 601 new foreign organizations, he said.
Huawei and SMIC are also on a US trade black list and was impressed by Washington’s comprehensive controls on advanced chips. The contract chipset Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is already following US export restrictions.
However, Ray Wang, an independent semiconductor and technology analyst, told CNBC to add Huawei and SMIC to the Taiwan black list, probably aiming to strengthen this policy and to tighten the existing gaps.
Authorized, new domestic export controls in the future can increase the punishment for any potential violation, he added.
In October last year, TSMC was involved in discussions that the semiconductor research firm Techinsights found a TSMC chip on a Huawei AI training card.
Following the discovery, the US Trade Department ordered TSMC to stop access to chips for Chinese customers for AI services. report From Reuters. It could be tsmc reported He faces $ 1 billion as a penalty to solve the US investigation on the issue.
Huawei is trying to create alternatives suitable for Nvidia’s general processing units used for AI. However, experts say that the progress of the company is limited to export controls and lack of scale and ability at the domestic chip ecosystem.
According to Huawei’s Paul Triolo, China’s partner and senior vice president of China in the consulting firm DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, it is believed that Huawei bought the gaps before TSMC from TSMC.
A pattern refers to a small piece of silicone material that forms the basis of building processors and contains the complex circuit and components required to make calculations.
The pressure of the Taiwan government on exports to SMIC and Huawei will bring the democraticly governed candidate as its own region in the midst of tense geopolitical tensions with the mainland China.
In April, the United States confirmed its commitment to support the current status quo while conducting large -scale military exercises on the shores of the Chinese island.
Inside Statements reported by the state media On Sunday, China’s best political adviser Wang Hunging reiterated Beijing’s position and called for a determined opposition to the encouragement of national unification with Taiwan and the independence of Taiwan.
