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·
      22 days ago

      That is not very friendly.

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

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        114·
        22 days ago

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

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            110·
            22 days 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·
              21 days 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·
          21 days 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.