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U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:55PM   
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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• Re:Seriously? Re:Seriously? (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 30 2020, @10:09AM (2 children)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday March 30 2020, @10:09AM (#977159) Journal

  Yeah, thoughts.

  Who runs this court?

  Where does the court think that the US "belongs"?

  There are reasons, both legitimate and illegitimate, why the US won't submit to the jurisdiction of various international courts. The US has never surrendered any military personnel accused of war crimes to an international court, or to any national court outside of the US. We won't submit to any trade court, unless it is controlled by the US, and so heavily stacked that it will always rule in our favor. It certainly wouldn't do to have a court that might rule against us, even on rare occasions.

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• Re:Seriously? Re:Seriously? (Score: 3, Interesting) by exaeta on Monday March 30 2020, @02:10PM (1 child)

  by exaeta (6957) on Monday March 30 2020, @02:10PM (#977204) Homepage Journal

  What about a simple idea: You can't sanction countries for things they do in a different country that allows that behavior. No country has authority to regulate simply because a US object was used. Countries that bow to such sanctions are understandable, only because the U.S.A. is the schoolyard bully. But the U.S. should be sanctioned by China and Russia and the EU for this behavior. For that matter, EU needs to grow a spine and sanction the US, they are the only ones in a position to stop this bullshit.

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  • Re:Seriously? (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 30 2020, @02:28PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday March 30 2020, @02:28PM (#977209) Journal

    Agreed.

    Maybe if the world collectively flipped the bird at Washington, D.C, the assholes in the swamp wouldn't be so hard to live with. Of course, with Israel and the Five Eyes backing Washington, the world is hesitant to do that.

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