TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US restrictions

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd has stopped new orders from Huawei Technologies in response to Washington’s move aimed at further limiting chip supplies to the Chinese company, the Nikkei reported on Monday, citing multiple sources.

The orders which TSMC took before the new ban and those already in production are not impacted and could continue to proceed if those chips could be shipped before mid-September, according to the report.

TSMC, the world’s biggest contract chipmaker and a key Huawei supplier, had announced plans to build a US-based plant on Thursday and on Friday added it was “following the US export rule change closely”.