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TSMC faces $1 billion US fine for making chips for blacklisted Huawei
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TSMC may be hit with a fine exceeding $1 billion by the U.S. Commerce Department for unknowingly supplying Huawei a compute chiplet for the latter's Ascend 910-series AI processor, Reuters reports. However, that Ascend 910-series compute chiplet should probably have triggered alarms as it contained tens of billions of transistors (i.e., it was hard and expensive to develop), yet it came from a little-known company affiliated with a bitcoin mining hardware designer. This certainly made the U.S. Department of Commerce, which has done a lot to curb sales of advanced AI processors to Chinese Entities, particularly angry as some estimate that Sopgo procured millions of chiplets for Huawei.
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