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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company suspended shipments to China-based chip designer Sophgo after a chip it made was found on a Huawei AI processor, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Sophgo had ordered chips from TSMC that matched the one found on Huawei’s Ascend 910B, the people said. Huawei is restricted from buying the technology to protect U.S. national security. Reuters could not determine how the chip ended up on the Huawei product.

Tech research firm TechInsights discovered the TSMC chip on Huawei’s Ascend 910B when it took apart the multi-chip processor, a different source told Reuters on Tuesday. Alerted to the finding, about two weeks ago TSMC notified the U.S., the source said.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    281·
    2 months ago

    So… you’re saying calling a productized die a “chip” is inappropriate? I think you’d be in the minority.

      • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
        131·
        2 months ago

        That is not very friendly.

        Anyway, here’s a picture of what I believe is a multi-chip processor.

        • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          114·
          2 months ago

          That’s something else entirely. It literally even says “chiplet” at the top. It is a collection of discrete processor chips.

          • AdanisiEnglish
            111·
            2 months ago

            These have existed before the term “chiplet”.

            • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
              110·
              2 months ago

              I know that SIP isn’t anything new, but it’s still not what “processor” brings to mind. It’s a package or a module, and it could comprise one or more processors.

              • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
                11·
                2 months ago

                So the pedantry is that the whole package can’t be called a processor. A CPU is not a processor.

          • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            2 months ago

            Seems my other, completely reasonable retort was removed 🙄

            So all I’ll say is: based on you seemingly not understanding what a chip is, it seriously brings into disrepute your claim that you are a professional in the semiconductor industry.