Although Huawei cannot legally obtain advanced chips made by TSMC, the company used shell companies last year to obtain compute chiplets for its Ascend 910 AI chips. The conspiracy was discovered ...

TSMC may be hit with a fine exceeding $1 billion by the U.S. Commerce Department for unknowingly supplying Huawei a compute chiplet for the latter's Ascend 910-series AI processor, Reuters reports.