New decision from Taiwan: Chip shipments to Russia and Belarus are stopped

Russia, which invaded Ukraine last February, received harsh criticism from many countries and technology companies. Now hosting giant production facilities, Taiwan has announced that it will stop chip shipments to the country.

Production equipment is also banned

Sharing a list of all high-tech products that will be banned from exporting to Russia and Belarus earlier this week, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said, “Companies in these two countries have They are now prohibited from purchasing Taiwan-made microprocessors or microcircuits with any of the following characteristics: performance speeds of 5 gigaflops or more, clock frequency speeds exceeding 25 MHz, an external interconnect with a data transfer rate. “Basic propagation latency of 2.5MB/s or more, more than 144 pins, or less than 0.4 nanoseconds.”

Announcing that new high-tech products will be banned from Belarus in order to prevent Russia from circumventing these sanctions, the Taiwan administration also announced the sale of equipment necessary for these countries to produce their own chips. will stop. However, as companies in the two mentioned regions now find it difficult to purchase certain semiconductor products such as microprocessors or even microcircuits, local manufacturing seems to take a big hit.