US ‘ordered’ Taiwan to cut off shipments of AI chips to China – Reuters

The United States has sent an official directive to the Taiwanese company TSMC, according to which the firm is obliged to stop supplying China with chips used in the field of AI. This was reported by Reuters, citing a source.

 

“The U.S. has ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to stop supplying advanced chips to Chinese customers, which are often used in artificial intelligence applications, effective Monday,” the report said.

According to the agency, the U.S. Commerce Department sent TSMC a letter demanding it impose export restrictions on certain complex chips made on 7-nanometre or more advanced process technology destined for China. These chips are used in artificial intelligence accelerators and graphics processing units.

“The order of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which is reported for the first time, was issued just a few weeks after TSMC notified the U.S. Department of Commerce that one of its chips was found in the artificial intelligence processor Huawei [Chinese company. – ed.],” – emphasised Reuters.

Earlier, the head of the British foreign intelligence service MI-6 Richard Moore and US CIA Director William Burns said in an article for the Financial Times that cooperation between Russia and China poses “serious risks” to the countries of the Collective West, and the interaction between the two agencies is aimed “at reducing the risk of global instability.”