US SANCTIONS: The chipmaker said it conducts due diligence on every product it exports to make sure it is in compliance with international trade regulations
Taipei Times
Date: May 24, 2019
By: Lisa Wang / Staff reporter, in Hsinchu
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday said it would
The logo of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is pictured during an investors’ conference in Taipei on April 13, 2017.
Photo: Reuters
continue supplying wafers and technologies to Huawei Technologies Co (華為) as its exports are in full compliance with international trade rules, despite the US’ latest sanctions on the Chinese firm.
The chipmaker’s move came as a slew of global firms followed the lead of Aphabet Inc’s Google in cutting ties with the world’s No. 2 smartphone maker after Washington put Huawei on a blacklist.
TSMC, which counts Huawei among its top clients, said that it is the company’s long-term practice to conduct due diligence on every product it exports to make sure it is in compliance with international trade rules.
“Based on our due diligence, we do not anticipate any major changes in how we ship wafers and how we deliver technologies to this client,” TSMC spokesperson Elizabeth Sun (孫又文) said on the sidelines of the chipmaker’s annual technology symposium in Hsinchu. [FULL STORY]