Taiwan plans to tighten export controls on AI chips and servers, aligning with US restrictions to make smuggling cutting-edge semiconductors to China a criminal offence. Taiwan is preparing to tighten export controls on AI chips to further align with US restrictions, according to a senior official in Taipei, joining a Trump administration clampdown on the smuggling of cutting-edge semiconductors to China. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Taiwan plans to tighten export controls on AI chips and servers, aligning with US restrictions to make smuggling cutting-edge semiconductors to China a criminal offence.S1

• Taiwan is preparing to tighten export controls on AI chips to further align with US restrictions, according to a senior official in Taipei, joining a Trump administration clampdown on the smuggling of cutting-edge semiconductors to China.S2