Taiwan is tightening export rules on Huawei and SMIC, which could make it even harder for China to push forward with its semiconductor goals.

A senior Trump administration official projected that Huawei Technologies Co.’s output of its Ascend AI chip will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, responding to US lawmakers’ concerns that China is gaining ground in production of advanced semiconductors.

HWT.UL] is capable of producing no more than 200,000 advanced artificial intelligence chips in 2025, a top U.S. exports controls official told lawmakers on Thursday, warning that though the number is below the company's demand,

Despite sanctions, Chinese companies are forging ahead with AI. The Huawei AI stack is optimised to run on the CloudMatrix 384 AI chip cluster.

Huang warned that by restricting AI chip sales to China, the U.S. may accelerate China's move to develop a separate technology stack. Huawei, he said, is already in position to cover China and much of the rest of the world if U.

The United States is exaggerating Huawei's achievements when it comes to the Ascend AI chip, the chief executive of China's Huawei Technologies said, according to Chinese state media.Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei said the company uses group computing to supplement single chips,

U.S. export controls on Nvidia have incentivized China to develop alternatives, while also making it more difficult for domestic firms to do so, experts say.

Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei acknowledged that their chips lag behind U.S. counterparts by one generation, despite Nvidia's praise for Huawei's AI advancem