It took five years to the world’s leading foundry, but the Taiwan Commerce Ministry finally joined the US Commerce Department, banning chip exports to Huawei and SMIC. The latter is China’s largest foundry and is the third largest in the world after Taiwan’s TSMC and the Samsung Foundry. But here Taiwan has decided more than deciding to lock weapons with the United States in April, anonymous sources said, adding that the US Trade Department has considered a $ 1 billion or more penalty against TSMC to provide Huawei for its climbing 910B Axel.
What is a chapel?
First, let’s identify the difference between a chip and a chapel. The difference is in the manufacturing process. With a chip, all parts are made using the node of the same process on the same dye. As a result, even parts of a single chip that do not need to be constructed with the latest technology will have to be used. A chapel is an integrated circuit made using the modular process. More than one small and independent chapels are used, each form a special part of the chip, such as CPU core, GPU core, memory controllers, I/O die, AI accelerators, and special cache blocks.
The TSMC inadvertently provided Huawei for the 910B AI ACCENTER chip ascending its climbing. | Image Credit is
Since the TSMC uses US technology to produce integrated circuits, it is already banned by the US Commerce Department’s license under US export laws, Huawei and SMIC are already banned from shipping silicon. Only US sanctions have forced Huawei and SMIC to refer to expensive and less precise manufacturing methods, such as TSMC’s latest silicon components and several patterns using old lithography technology in an attempt to eliminate the difference made by SMIC.
While Huawei CEO Ren Xiangfi says his company’s latest processor is only one generation behind the United States, the original space is two to three generations. The new restrictions announced by Taiwan certainly talk about sourcing chips, and will make life worse for Huawei. It may be that the TSMC feels that Huawei used shell companies to betray them that the foundry created two billion AI computing chapels that ended in Huawei’s chips.
If the TSMC knew who was really, then it was probably. Following US sanctions and did not sell chapels to shell companies. With the new rules, both Huawei and SMIC will need to obtain export permits to receive products from Taiwan -based suppliers. This should allow the Taiwanese government to gain more control over the TSMC transactions that do with two Chinese companies and the foundry should be stopped again by the Huawei and SMIC.
Did the United States take part in Taiwan’s new chip sanctions and SMIC?
Taiwan, more than any other country, is likely to acquire modern chips through China. There is always concern that China believes in the “principle of China”, so Taiwan can be invaded by the purpose of re -unity. The Republic of China (PRC) has not abandoned the use of power to achieve it, and this means that modern chips obtained by Huawei can be used to build weapons used against Taiwan.
In addition, the PRC wants to become self -sufficient manufacturing chips with the PRC, the attack on Taiwan will allow China to take control of the TSMC. The foundry plans to make the PRC difficult to control the fibers and other goods used to prepare chips in the event of an attack.
It is speculated that Taiwan’s decision to ban SMIC was the result of talks between the United States and Taiwan about the capacity of more than $ 1 billion between the US and Taiwan, which the TSMC faced with the United States to send the chapels to Hua. But as we pointed out, TSMC was deceived by Huawei and banned the delivery of Huawei and Samak, Taiwan and the United States, now on the same page.
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