Comment on Exclusive: TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say
decipher_jeanne@jlai.lu 1 week ago
Can they do that? Wasn’t the ban on US companies exporting AI chips to china. Taiwan wasn’t in the export ban directly, just a side effect. Or am I miss understanding the situation?
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
The issue is a TSMC-made chip ended up inside a Huawei processor. They’re not allowed to make chips for Huawei or other US-sanctioned entities since they use US tech inside their foundries.
What happened here is that TSMC made chips for another Chinese company that gave them to Huawei (and is now on the sanctioned list as well as a result, but wasn’t when TSMC made the chips). The problem for TSMC is if the US determines they should have reasonably known there was a risk the company they made the chips for would give them to Huawei.