Beijing’s strategic push for semiconductor self-reliance depends heavily on key companies like Huawei — and China just proved how far it will go to defend them.
China added several prominent Western companies to its Unreliable Entity List on Thursday, including the research firm TechInsights. This Canadian company was one of the institutions that revealed Huawei used TSMC to build the Ascend 910B chip despite American sanctions — resulting in a possible $1-billion fine for the Taiwanese chip maker.
