US-China tech war: supercomputer sanctions on China begin to bite as Taiwan’s TSMC said to suspend chip orders


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Washington’s new supercomputer sanctions on China are already beginning to bite, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has suspended new orders from Phytium Information Technology Co, one of seven Chinese organisations related to supercomputing that was put on the US Entity List last week, according to a person familiar with the matter. TSMC will complete orders placed before the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security added the entities to the trade blacklist on national security grounds , the person told the South China Morning Post . A TSMC representative declined to comment on the matter but said the...