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U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Free-market dept.

takyon writes:

US poised to restrict TSMC's chip sales to China's Huawei

The United States has been aiming to curb the supply of chips sold by contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to China's Huawei Technologies Co. through planned heavier sanctions against the Chinese telecom equipment giant, according to a Reuters report.

The report said while tensions between Washington and Beijing have been escalating with both sides blaming each other for spreading the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Trump administration has a plan to introduce new measures to further restrict global chip sales to Huawei.

Under the proposed new rules, the report, dated Thursday (March 26) in Washington, said foreign companies that use U.S. production equipment to roll out their chips would be required to obtain a U.S. license ahead of sales of certain chips to Huawei, which was blacklisted last year.

Boon for Apple, AMD, Nvidia, etc. or a disaster in the making?

Also at Tom's Hardware.

See also:
AMD is set to become TSMC's biggest 7nm customer in 2020
Report: TSMC's Reducing Its Reliance on Huawei Amid US Government Scrutiny

Related:
AMD Says TSMC Can Meet Epyc Demand; Launches New, Higher-Clocked 64-Core CPU
How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:41PM (#977059)

    I dunno, the goal is probably good but the approach is probably not right, it ain't too late to walk down a different path but it takes time. There's plenty of cheap labor to be had in Asia and Africa - it is a better model for cheap labor as it is distributed across multiple countries so yer eggs aren't mostly in one basket like the situation is with China at the moment.

    Trump seems to just want to attack China head on without looking at the alternatives to achieve the same outcome. I firmly believe China is to blame for this covid mess, and now is a good opportunity as any to rally the world against them - they have to pay.