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.
South Korea s government said this week that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will be allowed to supply US chip equipment to their China factories indefinitely without separate US approvals.
The US Commerce Department has discussed details with the South Korean chipmakers on which equipment could be used in China, said news agency Yonhap, citing unnamed sources, adding that the US would make related announcements as early as this week.