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Taiwan plans to make unauthorized AI chip shipments to China a crime

Taiwan's economics minister, Kung Ming-hsin, told Bloomberg that Taipei will add AI servers and leading-edge semiconductors to its list of controlled goods, in line with commitments under its trade agreement with the US. Once the change takes effect, shipping restricted AI hardware to China without authorization would become a criminal offense under Taiwan's Foreign Trade Act. Today, Taiwan can only pursue suspected smugglers under other laws. No start date has been given.

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So whatExpect tighter screening on AI servers and accelerators that ship from or through Taiwan.

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