The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced on Wednesday that it blacklisted 16 companies and tightened export due diligence rules to prevent China from accessing advanced semiconductors.
Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC informed the United States in October 2024 that one of its chips had reportedly been found in Huawei’s Ascend 910B multi-chip artificial intelligence (AI) system.
In a final rule posted to the Federal Register, the BIS said it is adding 14 China-based companies and two Singapore-based companies to its entity list because they “supply Chinese public security end users and pose a risk of diversion to Huawei, an entity on the Entity List.”…