U.S. government could resort to heavy-handed tactics to force supply chain information from TSMC

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is hesitant to fulfill a asking from the U.S. government regarding the company's supply concatenation. The U.S. regime has sent out questionnaires to several bit makers to assist set the ongoing global chip shortage. TSMC expressed concerns over customer privacy and merchandise secrets (via Nikkei Asia).

"We volition definitely non leak our company's sensitive information, especially that related to our customers," said Sylvia Fang, TSMC'south general counsel. "Nosotros are still at the stage of doing some preliminary research and evaluating the contents of the questionnaire."

Chipmakers, including TSMC, accept until November 8, 2022 (45 days from when given the questionnaire) to voluntarily provide information to the U.S. Authorities. The companies are expected to share information regarding key customers, production capacity, and inventories.

If TSMC and others don't voluntarily provide data, the U.S. regime could take more drastic activeness. After a meeting with chip makers, U.Southward. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that the Biden administration could resort to Cold War-era national security tactics.

"What I told them is, 'I don't want to have to practice anything compulsory but if they don't comply, and so they'll leave me no choice,'" said Raimondo to Bloomberg. "I said today we're evaluating all of our options right now, all the tools. I hope not to become there only we need to run across some progress and nosotros definitely need compliance."

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