In This Story Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM-0.21%) is following U.S. efforts to curb China’s artificial intelligence ambitions, reportedly telling chip design firms in the country it will stop producing their most advanced AI chips. How Nvidia’s H200 GPUs and Blackwell chips are revolutionizing data centers The Taiwanese chipmaker told its Chinese customers it is…
Michael McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged US Commerce Department agents to visit SMIC’s facilities and check whether the company is illegally producing chips for Huawei Technologies, the sanctioned telecommunications equipment company seen as a national champion within China’s chip industry. In a November 4 letter seen by Reuters, McCaul described what…
Apple’s sales in Greater China fell by less than 1 per cent in last quarter, a mark of continuing decline for the US tech giant in one of its most important markets, as it tries to woo mainland officials while warding off growing competition. The iPhone maker’s sales in the market – which includes mainland…
Text size Chinese technology giant Huawei saw its net profit fall by over 13 percent in the first three quarters of 2024 year-on-year, a company filing showed Thursday. Huawei has for several years been at the centre of an intense tech rivalry between Beijing and Washington, with US officials warning its equipment could be used…
Chinese internet regulators are removing social media accounts that use fake information to hype the country’s military strength, including false reports of “cyberwarfare” in the South China Sea. A sample post from June on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, read: “Breaking news: China and the US engaged in 12 hours of cyber warfare, causing Luzon…
By Karen Freifeld and Fanny Potkin (Reuters) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company suspended shipments to China-based chip designer Sophgo after a chip it made was found on a Huawei AI processor, according to two people familiar with the matter. Sophgo had ordered chips from TSMC that matched the one found on Huawei’s Ascend 910B, the…
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company notified the U.S. that one of its chips had been found in a Huawei product after tech research firm TechInsights took apart the product and revealed a possible violation of export restrictions on the Chinese company, according to a person familiar with the matter. The teardown was…
(Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said on Tuesday it has informed the United States of a potential attempt by Huawei to circumvent U.S. export controls prohibiting the chipmaker from producing AI chips for the Chinese company. The U.S. government restricted the export of high-end AI chips to China two years ago, citing the need…
(Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said on Tuesday it has informed the United States of a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for China’s Huawei in circumvention of export controls. The U.S. government restricted the export of high-end AI chips to China two years ago, citing the need to limit the Chinese…
HONG KONG/TAIPEI — Chinese artificial intelligence giant SenseTime Group is using “a lot” of domestic chips, including from Huawei Technologies, to train its large language models, as part of efforts to rapidly develop a homegrown AI computing ecosystem, a senior executive told Nikkei Asia. Alvin Zou, vice president of SenseTime’s Asia Pacific operations, said the…