The International Trade Administration of Taiwan added Huawei and SMIC to its "Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List," including a host of their subsidiaries. Huawei and SMIC, two of China's leading semiconductor companies,

Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls.

Taiwan's government has placed Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) on its export control list, escalating restrictions on technology trade with China. The move,