TSMC says it has alerted US of potential China AI chip curbs violation, FT reports

(Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said it has informed the United States of a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for China’s Huawei in circumvention of export controls, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The U.S. Commerce Department was investigating if TSMC had been making chips for China’s Huawei, whose access to non-Chinese chips has been curbed by U.S. export controls. TSMC, which counts Apple and Nvidia among its customers, has benefited from a surge in AI development across a spectrum of industries. The Taiwanese chip manufacturer, the Commerce Department and Huawei did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.

(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)