The Biden administration added more than two dozen Chinese entities to a U.S. restricted trade list on Wednesday, including Zhipu AI, a developer of large language models, and Sophgo, a company whose TSMC-made chip was illegally incorporated into a Huawei artificial intelligence processor.

Os EUA planejam anunciar mais regulamentações com o objetivo de impedir que chips avançados produzidos pela Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) e por outros fabricantes sejam direcionados à China.

The world's most advanced contract chipmaker has severed its ties with a Singapore-based company after a client review exposed a potential breach of US export controls, according to people familiar with the matter.

The US has introduced new regulations to prevent advanced chips from reaching China. This move aims to tighten restrictions on its geopolitical rival, urging chip manufacturers like TSMC and Samsung Electronics to increase their oversight of customers,

The outgoing Biden administration is introducing even more measures focused on keeping advanced chips out of China.

TSMC is set to report a net profit of T$377.95 billion ($11.44 billion) for the quarter ended Dec. 31, according to a LSEG SmartEstimate drawn from 22 analysts. SmartEstimates give greater weighting to forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate.

TSMC's (TW: 2330) (NYSE: TSM) net income surged 57% to T$374.68 billion ($11.60 billion) in the three months to Dec 31, the company said in a statement. The figure was higher than Bloomberg estimates of T$369.84 billion.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company beat revenue and profit expectations in the fourth quarter on continued strong demand for AI chips.