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Biden administration in October said it plans to halt shipments
to China of more advanced artificial intelligence chips designed
by Nvidia and others, as part of measures to try to stop Beijing
from receiving U.S. technologies to strengthen its military.
Taiwan, home to the world's largest contract chipmaker TSMC and
many other semiconductor firms, has its own restrictions on what
can go to China, which claims the democratically-governed island
as its own territory.
Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said some details of the
extremely long new U.S. rules needed explanation.
"We think that them (the U.S.) coming to Taiwan, to explain
things to companies, getting a face-to-face understanding of the
thinking of U.S. enforcement agencies, having on site
communication on the details, is something Taiwan needs," she
told reporters.
Given the concentration of chip making in Taiwan it was
"advantageous" for Taiwanese companies to hear the details of
the new controls from the U.S. officials, Wang said.
Taiwan's official Central News Agency said the U.S. officials,
who it did not name, would visit Taiwan next month and hold
events in the chip hubs of Hsinchu and Tainan.
The U.S. Commerce Department did not respond to requests for
comment outside business hours.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Jeanny Kao; Editing by
Bernadette Baum and Barbara Lewis)
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