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Fortune
Lionel Lim

How TSMC and other firms making the most advanced semiconductors are getting a reprieve from Biden's chip war on China

(Credit: Sam Yeh—AFP via Getty Images)

The Biden administration is on a mission to stop China from catching up to the cutting-edge chips designed by the U.S. and its allies. But even Washington is realizing that the giants making the world's most advanced semiconductors can't abandon China entirely.

On Friday, leading chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) received a U.S. waiver to continue supplying chip equipment for the firm's Chinese factories.

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