Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has indicated it will not exploit apparent loopholes in the latest US restrictions on working with Chinese technology group Huawei and will comply with Washington’s intentions.
The remarks from Mark Liu, TSMC chairman, suggest the ban by the Department of Commerce on companies selling Huawei-designed chips back to Huawei if they have been made or designed using US equipment or software is almost certain to cripple the Chinese company’s technological progress.
The world’s largest contract chipmaker said that to assess whether there was a loophole, it would have to look at what the goal of the Department of Commerce was in amending the rules.