Heavyweight! The United States fully bans Chinese AI, and TSMC's '7nm and below chips' will be completely sanctioned from next week.

After TSMC was previously reported to be suspected of violating the U.S. ban on helping Huawei make chips, the Commerce Department has ordered TSMC to suspend the supply of advanced chips for artificial intelligence (AI) applications to Chinese customers starting next Monday, hoping to assess whether other companies have transferred chips to China. (Synopsis: TSMC complains that "Taiwan's electricity bill is the most expensive in the world"!) The Minister of Economy responded: Strive to reduce prices and buy green electricity from the Philippines) (Background supplement: Self-developed chip into Xianxue! OpenAI has joined hands with Broadcom to build AI chips and book TSMC's production capacity in 2026) According to Reuters, the U.S. Department of Commerce has sent a letter to TSMC to impose export controls on specific 7-nanometer or more advanced designs of cutting-edge chips shipped to China to power AI accelerators and GPUs, so TSMC has notified all affected Chinese customers to stop chip shipments together next week. TSMC stopped supplying China's 7nm AI chips Earlier, it was just reported that TSMC was suspected of violating the US ban to help Huawei manufacture chips, semiconductor research institute Tech Insights released a report last month pointing out that after dismantling, it was found that Huawei's Ascend 910B processor uses TSMC's 7nm process, TSMC then said that it would no longer dump Huawei since mid-September 2020, and took the initiative to notify the US Department of Commerce. Due to its inclusion in the sanctions list by the United States, Huawei needs suppliers to obtain licenses to supply any goods or technology to it, but any license application that may help Huawei develop AI may be denied. Computing Technology, a chip design company owned by Bitmain, the world's largest BTC mining machine manufacturer, was accused of acting as a white glove for Huawei at the time to help bypass US regulations and buy TSMC chips, although Computing Technology later issued a statement emphasizing that it had never had any commercial relationship with Huawei, but people familiar with the matter revealed that after this incident, TSMC has stopped supplying Computing Technology. The latest restrictions in the United States will affect more companies, and the United States will use this to assess whether other companies have transferred chips to Huawei for their AI processors. In response to the latest Reuters report, the US Department of Commerce refused to respond, and a TSMC spokesperson did not comment further, saying only that "as a law-abiding company, we are committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations, including applicable export control regulations." More Chinese companies may be on the sanctions list The report mentioned that the US Department of Commerce informed in the form of a notification letter, which allows the US executive branch to bypass the lengthy rule-making process and quickly implement new licensing requirements for specific companies. The United States has repeatedly delayed updating rules on technology exports to China, and Reuters reported in July that the Biden administration drafted new rules on the export of chip manufacturing equipment to certain overseas and planned to add about 120 Chinese companies, including wafer fabs, tool manufacturers and related companies, to the U.S. Department of Commerce's restricted entity list, but no new rules have been issued so far. Related reports related to Huawei's chip ban" Bitmain may be cut off by TSMC! L9 mining machines can not be produced and delivered TSMC out of stock high-end chips! Foreign media explosion: "Huawei white gloves" is Bitmain's computing technology Trump proposed to "abolish federal income tax": collect tariffs and the United States to make a fortune! TSMC's biggest victim? 〈Heavy! The United States has completely blocked China's AI, and TSMC's "chips below 7 nanometers" have all been included in sanctions since next week" This article was first published in the moving area BlockTempo "moving area dynamic trend - the most influential Block chain news media".