Taiwan Blacklists Huawei’s China’s and SMIC, more alignment with US policy

The Chinese Taiwan Huawei and SMIC added to its blacklist list in a move that increases its accompanying with the American commercial policy and comes amid increasing tensions with Beijing.

The International Trade Department in Taiwan Huawei and SMIC added to it.List of high -tech strategic commodities“Including a group of its subsidiaries.

The current Taiwan regulations require licenses from the organizers before local companies can charge the products to the parties called the entity list.

Huawei and SMIC, two of the leading semiconductor companies in China, in a black trade list in the United States and were affected by Washington’s sweeping controls on advanced chips.

Companies such as Contract Chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Co are already followed by American export restrictions.

However, the addition of Huawei and SMIC to the Taiwan Black list is likely to enhance this policy and tighten the current gaps, Ray Wang, an independent semiconductor and technical analyst, said to CNBC.

He added that the new local export controls can raise the punishment for any possible breach in the future.

TSMC was involved in a controversy in October last year when the Tesinsights Research Company found a TSMC chip at the Huawei Ai training card.

After the discovery, the US Department of Commerce ordered TSMC to stop the access of Chinese customers to the chips used in artificial intelligence services, according to a report From Reuters. TSMC can also It is said A billion dollars face as a penalty for settling an American investigation.

Huawei was Work to create viable alternatives for NVIDIAGeneral treatment units used in artificial intelligence. However, experts say that the company’s progress was limited due to export controls and lack of size and progress in the ecosystem of local chips.

However, Huawei managed to obtain several million GPU’s death from TSMC to design in ASCEND with the previous gaps before discovering it, according to Paul Trollo, partner and vice president of China at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Consulting.

Death refers to a small piece of silicone that works as a basis for building treatments and contains the complex circuits and components needed to make accounts.

The Taiwanese government campaign on exports to SMIC and Huawei also comes amid tense geopolitical tensions with the mainland China, which is the democratic island of its own lands that have been forcibly included, if necessary.

In April, the United States confirmed again Commitment to support the current current situation China also conducted large -scale military exercises off the island’s coast.

in Data reported by government media On Sunday, China’s chief political advisor, Wang Haning, echoed Beijing’s position, and called for promoting the unification of national reunion with Taiwan and the firm opposition to Taiwan’s independence.