Taiwan’s TSMC stops shipments to client after chips sent to Huawei

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TSMC said it discovered on October 11 that chips made for a specific customer had ended up with Huawei.
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Source: AFP

Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC halted shipments to a customer this month after its semiconductors were sent to China’s Huawei, a Taipei government official told AFP, potentially breaching US sanctions.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world’s largest contract manufacturer of chips used in everything from Apple iPhones to Nvidia’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence hardware.

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