TSMC has recently been implicated in a controversy surrounding Huawei’s Ascend 910B chip, which was reportedly manufactured by TSMC. According to Reuters, Huawei placed its chip orders through a proxy, Chinese firm Sophgo. Although Sophgo quickly issued a statement on its website denying any co...

TSMC has halted shipments to Chinese chip designer Sophgo after a chip it manufactured was reportedly found in a Huawei AI processor, according to Reuters, which cited two sources familiar with the situation. The Reuters report noted that Sophgo had ordered chips from TSMC identical to the one de...

The discovery of TSMC-manufactured chips in Huawei devices has sparked significant concern among U.S. lawmakers. John Moolenaar, Chairman of the U.S. Congressional Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a Republican Congressman, criticized the reports, calling it a "catastrophic failure"...

Following the investigation launched by the U.S. Commerce Department on whether TSMC has manufactured smartphone or AI chips for Huawei, the foundry giant seems to have identified the underlying issue. According to a report by Reuters, TSMC announced on Tuesday that it has notified Washington about ...

Rumors have been circulating for a while that China’s tech giants are capable of manufacturing chips in advanced nodes even without the need for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines by ASML, and that local foundry SMIC has reportedly produced 5nm chips for Huawei. Now there seems to be a...