Taiwan weighs criminal ban on AI chip exports to all of China — stricter measures beyond blacklisted firms would make smuggling servers a crime

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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. The measure is under discussion as part of ongoing trade talks with the United States, and would likely cover chips above a set processing-power threshold, matching the way Washington sets its own restrictions.

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