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Chinese media continues tirade against Taipei for letting chip maker TSMC comply with US request for semiconductor supply data
- State media accused Washington of ‘extorting data’ from TSMC, Samsung and other top chip firms to serve the US government’s semiconductor development agenda
- Neither China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs nor the Ministry of Commerce has made an official comment about TSMC’s response to the US survey
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Chinese state-run media on Tuesday continued its tirade against the decision by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to hand over chip supply chain information to the US government, blaming Taipei for being soft on Washington.
TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, and other major companies directly involved in the semiconductor industry this week responded to a survey by the US Department of Commerce, which requested information about their product inventories, demand and delivery dynamics to better understand the ongoing global chip shortage.
Complying with the US government’s request was described as a “surrender” for TSMC, according to an article published by Beijing Business Today, a newspaper affiliated with Beijing Daily – the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party’s Beijing Municipal Committee.
That report accused Washington of extorting data from TSMC, Samsung Electronics and other top chip firms to serve the US semiconductor development agenda, citing Bai Ming, a researcher with China’s Ministry of Commerce.
“No one can guarantee that the data from Samsung and TSMC, once in hands of the US Commerce Department, will not end up in hands of [US players] like Intel,” Bai was quoted as saying. “There’s just no external oversight.”
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