Taiwan’s International Trade Administration has released an update on its strategic high-tech commodities entity list, which now blacklists 601 entities – notably including Huawei Technologies Co. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (and several of their subsidiaries). Local companies in Taiwan will now require approval from the government before they can ship infrastructure and materials necessary for advanced chip production (including plant construction technologies and manufacturing equipment) to entities on that list. The new restrictions imposed by Taipei are said to aim at partially cutting off Huawei and SMIC’s access to Taiwan’s advanced chip technologies like those made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
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