Taiwan blacklists China’s Huawei and SMIC, aligning more with U.S. policy

Taiwan added Huawei and Smic de la China to his commercial black list in a decision that aligns him more with American trade policy and arrives in the midst of increasing tensions with Beijing.

The two main Chinese Chinese companies were put on Taiwan “List of high -tech strategic entities“As well as many of their international subsidiaries.

Current Taiwan regulations require regulatory licenses before national companies can send products to the parties appointed to the list of entities.

In a statement On its website, the Taiwan international trade administration said Huawei and Smic is one of the 601 new foreign entities, on the black list due to their involvement in the proliferation activities of weapons and other national security problems.

Huawei and SMIC are also on an American commercial list and have been affected by Washington orders on advanced fleas. Companies such as CHIPMAKER TAIWAN semiconductor manufacturing CO already follow American export restrictions.

However, the addition of Huawei and SMIC to the Taiwan black list probably aims to strengthen this policy and the tightening of existing gaps, said Ray Wang, an independent semiconductor and technological analyst, in CNBC.

He added that new national export controls could also increase punishment for any potential violation in the future.

The TSMC had been involved in the controversy in October of last year when the semiconductor techinsights research company found a TSMC manufacturing chip in a Huawei AI training card.

After the discovery, the US trade department ordered TSMC to end Chinese customers with fleas used for AI services, according to a report from Reuters. TSMC could also would have Facing a billion dollars as a penalty to settle an American survey on the issue.

Huawei was Work to create viable alternatives to NvidiaGeneral processing units used for AI. However, experts claim that the progress of the company has been limited by export controls and the lack of scale and the capacities of the national chip ecosystem.

However, Huawei would have acquired several million TSMC GPU matrices for its AI chips using previous loopholes before their discovery, according to Paul Triolo, partner and main vice-president of China at the DGA-Albright Consulting Society Stonebridge Group.

A matrix refers to a small piece of silicon which serves as a basis for construction processors and contains the complex circuits and components necessary to make calculations.

The repression of the Taiwanese government against exports to SMIC and Huawei also intervenes in the midst of tense geopolitical tensions with continental China, which considers the island democratically governed as its own territory to bring together by force, if necessary.

In April, the United States reaffirmed its commitment to support the existing status quo While China put large -scale military exercises off the coast of the island.

In statements reported by the state media On Sunday, the best Chinese political advisor Wang Chuning echoes the position of Beijing, calling for the promotion of national reunification with Taiwan and an opposition resolved to the independence of Taiwan.