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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.

  • 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.