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The U.S. government has tried to keep Chinese companies from obtaining certain advanced technologies, but concerns have been growing that some products may have been routed to Huawei.

The U.S. government has spent years weaving a web of controls to prevent Chinese companies from being able to buy or make cutting-edge computer chips.

But several weeks ago, the maker of the world’s most advanced chips, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, learned that some of its chips had ended up in devices made by Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant under U.S. sanctions, according to two Taiwanese government officials who were not authorized to speak publicly.

TSMC, which manufactures chips for tech giants like Apple and Nvidia, said that it had not supplied chips to Huawei since those restrictions went into effect. But TSMC continues to supply other major companies in China, and concerns have been growing among U.S. officials that other companies could be routing

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