China AI chip company has reportedly designed to ensure that TSMC can receive orders

(Singapore Road Power Power Power)) Some artificial intelligence (AI) chip companies in China have reportedly designed processors with weak design functions to ensure that even US sanctions can continue to be delivered to TSMC for production.Reuters on Wednesday (June 5th) quoted four people familiar with the matter, saying that Mainland AI Chip Company Metax and ENFLAME submitted a chip design to TSMC at the end of 2023 to meet the US chip design in line with the United StatesThe restrictions.Both Mu Xi and Tanyuan Technology are both called "little giants", which is a new enterprise that has development potential in key areas, and is valued by Chinese officials.The two companies have previously claimed that their chips can be comparable to Nivine's graphics processors.People familiar with the matter said that the latest round of export control implemented by the United States last October was exposed to the limitations of China's advanced chip production capacity, and the dependence of Chinese artificial intelligence chip design companies to TSMC.The United States has implemented a series of export controls to high -precision processors and chip manufacturing equipment for Nvidia and other companies, and prevents overseas chip manufacturers such as TSMC using American chip manufacturing tools accepting Chinese production orders.According to sources, although there are about 44 chip foundries in China, only SMICs have advanced chips with energy for power.