TSMC faces a fine of 1,000 million dollars for the sale of semiconductors by skipping the US restrictions.

Between a Technological chaos that has begun with the Tariff entry into force of the Trump administration, known as the Rates, TSMC faces a millionaire fine also imposed by the government of USA. A fine of More than one billion dollars according to the US Department of Commerce has been imposed by the chips manufacture by skipping restrictions in force for him Access to Technologies from China.

It seems that TSMC manufactured these chips that they would have subsequently Added TO THE ACCELERATORS FOR IA Huawei Ascend 910. These facts date back to year 2023when TSMC received requests from Sophgo Socia de Bitmain. The chips were manufactured with a Advanced process that violated these restrictions by having billions of transistors. This has been discovered after disassemble One of these Ascend 910 of Huawei accelerators.

But TSMC did not know the end of this order that, after discovering the purpose of these, I immediately stopped the shipments and communicated it to the corresponding Department of Commerce. This caused Sophgo to have also been included in the list of vetoed companies to access to United States technology.

It is also said that Huawei had access to two million chips For the Ascend 910b that come from Ghost companies They managed to avoid the restrictions making orders to TSMC. It is also said that these orders are made before the Impossibility of manufacturing these chips locally and efficient.

In this way, TSMC is also obliged to reinforce your verifications before orders from new clients and thus avoid sanctions, although Let them be deceived.