Some of the world’s most-guarded semiconductor technology has ended up in China’s Huawei Technologies’ new artificial-intelligence chips, showing the limits of the U.S.’s broad attempts to thwart such hardware linkups. Core circuitry produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was found in Huawei’s Ascend 910B chips, according to people familiar with the matter and TechInsights, a Canada-based research firm that conducts …
China has made a major breakthrough in microchip manufacturing, undermining US President Joe Biden’s efforts to block Beijing from accessing the most advanced technology. SMIC, which is China’s biggest microchip manufacturer, was placed on a US “blacklist” in 2020 because of the “unacceptable risk” that its products could be used for military purposes. TechInsights vice-chairman Dan Hutcheson told Bloomberg, which …
