US Aims to Tighten Flow of TSMC and Samsung Chips to China
- Guidelines aim to push chipmakers’ due diligence on China
- Rules are response to TSMC chips going to blacklisted company
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The US plans to unveil more regulations aimed at keeping advanced chips made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and other producers from flowing to China, part of a flurry of measures introduced by the Biden administration during its final days in office.
The latest measures would seek to encourage chip producers like TSMC, Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. to more carefully scrutinize customers and increase due diligence, according to people familiar with the matter. The changes follow an incident where TSMC-made chips were secretly diverted to the blacklisted Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co.