Mainland China’s chip design firms are anxiously waiting for any further updates from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), after the world’s most advanced contract chip manufacturer paused 7-nanometre node services for some artificial intelligence (AI) chip clients in the world’s largest semiconductor market by consumption. TSMC last week told graphics-processing-unit (GPU) and AI-accelerator clients on…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s semiconductor index leapt close to a three-year high on Monday on bets a U.S. order halting Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers could accelerate Beijing’s self-reliance efforts. TSMC will from Monday suspend shipments of certain sophisticated chips to some Chinese clients after receiving a letter from…
By Karen Freifeld and Fanny Potkin NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers that are often used in artificial intelligence applications starting Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Department of Commerce sent a letter to TSMC imposing export…
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…
By Max A. Cherney, Jeffrey Dastin, Dawn Chmielewski, Fanny Potkin and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Pat Gelsinger took the reins as Intel CEO three years ago with hopes of reviving the American industrial icon. He soon made a big mistake. Intel had a sweet deal going with Taiwan’s TSMC, the giant manufacturer of semiconductors for…
By Krystal Hu, Fanny Potkin and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – OpenAI is working with Broadcom and TSMC to build its first in-house chip designed to support its artificial intelligence systems, while adding AMD chips alongside Nvidia chips to meet its surging infrastructure demands, sources told Reuters. OpenAI, the fast-growing company behind ChatGPT, has examined a…
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…
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