In November, BIS directed TSMC to end all sales of its most advanced AI chips to China and has since blacklisted Sophgo, the Huawei cutout. Meanwhile, U.S. chip designers are pulling further ahead.

The list includes Sophgo Technologies Ltd (算能科技), which was allegedly involved in Huawei getting access to TSMC chips last year. A semiconductor wafer is seen under process at a factory in Binzhou, in ...

Among the firms blacklisted are Zhipu AI, an AI research company, and Sophgo, a chipmaker involved with Huawei’s artificial intelligence systems. This move is part of the US’s ongoing efforts to limit ...

Among those impacted was Sophgo Technologies, which was said to have been involved in Huawei accessing chips from Taiwanese chip giant TSMC. Some of the Entity List additions were made because the ...

The Commerce Department also strengthened controls on the flow of chips to China to better prevent diversion to Huawei. Zhipu AI, Sophgo and entities linked to them were among 25 China-based companies ...

TSMC is bumping capital expenditure in 2025 to between $38 billion and $42 billion in anticipation of scooping up more chip manufacturing contracts in the field of AI processors. The Taiwanese-based ...

Zhipu AI, whose investors have included Alibaba and Tencent, was added for advancing China's military modernization through advanced AI research. Sophgo drew attention after a chip found on Huawei ...

and Sophgo, a company whose TSMC-made chip was illegally incorporated into a Huawei artificial intelligence processor. The Commerce ... Hi! You've reached one of our premium articles. This is ...

The updated rules also added Sophgo and PowerAir to the Entity List ... these two companies are diverting datacenter AI chips to Huawei.

Zhipu AI is accused of aiding China's military with AI research. Sophgo denied ties with Huawei. The US also tightened controls on exporting advanced chips and memory technologies to China ...

This is because the semiconductors ordered and manufactured from Taiwan's TSMC are the same as those used in Huawei's AI systems. Consequently, the U.S. believes Sophgo has supported Huawei ...

The Milk-V Oasis was supposed to be a mini ITX motherboard featuring a Sophgo SG2380 processor featuring 16 SiFive P670 RISC-V processor cores, Imagination AXT-16-512 graphics, and an NPU with up ...