U.S. grants chip export licenses into China

The U.S. has granted an annual licence to TSMC, allowing it to import chipmaking equipment to its facilities in China.

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00:00The U.S. has granted an annual license to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, also known as TSMC,

00:08allowing it to import U.S. chip-making equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China.

00:13South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have also received similar import licenses.

00:21TSMC says the approval is necessary to ensure uninterrupted fab operations and product deliveries.

00:27Its Nanjing plant produces 60nm and other mature node chips and not its most advanced semiconductors,

00:35although the company also operates a chip-making facility in Shanghai.

00:40In its 2024 annual report, TSMC said the Nanjing site accounted for about 2.4% of its total revenue.

00:49Previously, Asian chipmakers benefited from exemptions to Washington's sweeping export controls on chip-related technologies to China,

00:56as part of the U.S. efforts to maintain a technological edge over Beijing.

01:02But those privileges known as validated end-user status had expired on December 31,

01:07meaning the companies now require export licenses to continue operations into 2026.

01:12What is the state's first view of Hynix?

01:13This state's first view of how the US and the US and the US and the U.S. industry have been

01:28lost and won't be far from the US as compared to the US,

01:29as the US compared to the US.

01:31It is committed to an inappropriate process,

01:33as soon as possible.

01:34The US and the US and the US and the US also allowed the US to be offered

01:36for the US and the US and its current seat to the US for international trade.