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Taiwan weighs criminal ban on AI chip exports to all of China
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Taiwan is considering far stricter export controls that would restrict AI chip sales to every customer in China, not only blacklisted firms such as Huawei, a shift that would let Taipei prosecute smuggling as a criminal offense for the first time, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter.
Key facts
- Parts below 21,000 TPP and 6,500 GB/s of DRAM bandwidth, roughly Nvidia's H200 and AMD's MI325X, became eligible for case-by-case China licenses in January, while anything above that ceiling stays
- Taipei has until now been reluctant to mirror U.S. curbs in full, and any new curbs are also likely to draw a response from Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory and condemned the 2025 Huawei
- Prosecutors in Keelung made the island's first known detentions of alleged chip smugglers in May, holding three people over roughly 50 Nvidia-equipped servers on document-forgery allegations rather
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Summary
U.S. government plans tariff exemptions for TSMC. Nvidia wants China's market share to secure the future of CUDA in the region. Taiwan doesn’t currently classify unauthorized AI chip exports to China as a crime. Prosecutors in Keelung made the island's first known detentions of alleged chip smugglers in May, holding three people over roughly 50 Nvidia-equipped servers on document-forgery allegations rather than any export-control offense, part of the crackdown that prompted Nvidia to publicly press Supermicro on compliance.