{"id":450850,"date":"2026-01-04T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/?p=450850"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:52:02","slug":"taiwan-semiconductor-secures-annual-u-s-license-to-keep-nanjing-chip-plant-supplied-with-american-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/taiwan-semiconductor-secures-annual-u-s-license-to-keep-nanjing-chip-plant-supplied-with-american-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Semiconductor secures annual U.S. license to keep Nanjing chip plant supplied with American equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"353\">The U.S. government granted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) an annual license to import U.S.-made chipmaking equipment into its facilities in Nanjing, China, the company said on Thursday, January 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"621\">The approval allowed U.S. export-controlled items to be supplied to TSMC\u2019s Nanjing operation without requiring individual licenses for each vendor, and was intended to keep production and deliveries running without interruption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"912\">Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix also received similar import licenses, after earlier exemptions tied to Washington\u2019s chip-related export restrictions to China expired on December 31, pushing major Asian chipmakers to apply for licenses covering 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1174\">TSMC\u2019s Nanjing fab produced 16-nanometer and other \u201cmature node\u201d chips, rather than the company\u2019s most advanced semiconductors. In its 2024 annual report, TSMC said the Nanjing site generated about 2.4% of overall revenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1176\" data-end=\"1402\">The decision came under a broader U.S. export-control framework that tightened rules around advanced computing and certain semiconductor manufacturing items tied to China-related end uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government granted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) an annual license to import U.S.-made chipmaking equipment into its facilities in Nanjing, China, the company said on Thursday, January 1.\u00a0 The approval allowed U.S. export-controlled items to be supplied to TSMC\u2019s Nanjing operation without requiring individual licenses for each vendor, and was intended to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":450873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29330],"tags":[29372],"audience-intent":[],"content-types":[],"country":[],"entity":[],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-450850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-electronics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450850"},{"taxonomy":"audience-intent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience-intent?post=450850"},{"taxonomy":"content-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-types?post=450850"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=450850"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=450850"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=450850"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=450850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}