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Huawei Ascend 910B AI chip has secret TSMC chip inside: Taiwan, US government investigating | Huawei's new Ascend 910B AI trainer found with a chip from TSMC inside, sending the Taiwan and US governments into a scramble over China's latest move.
Huawei's new Ascend 910B AI trainer found with a chip from TSMC inside, sending the Taiwan and US governments into a scramble over China's latest move.
This incident has triggered " significant concern" in the IT industry, as it appears that " proxy buyers are acting on behalf of restricted Chinese companies to bypass the US rules, which are intended to protect its national security". The Taipei Times continues: "While providing access to such chips or advanced AI models through the cloud is not a contravention of the US regulations, experts have warned that restricted items might be transferred by proxy buyers to China, which repackages them, disguising the components as Chinese-made. US Representative John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the US and the Chinese Communist Party has called the incident with Huawei a "catastrophic failure" of US export control policies.
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