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Tsmc: Last October, the Biden administration published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut off China from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. tools, vastly expanding the reach of a bid to slow Beijing s technological and military advances.
The US aims to contain Beijing s tech ambitions, while also trying to avoid collateral damage to chipmakers from partner countries. TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix have been granted waivers, reflecting America s changing policies in the semiconductor industry.
Taiwan was waiting for a decision by the U.S. government on whether Taiwanese chipmakers will be allowed a waiver extension to supply U.S. chip equipment to their factories in China, Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said on Thursday. Last October, the Biden administration published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut off China from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. tools, vastly expanding the reach of a bid to slow Beijing's technological and