Republican Representative John Moolenaar, chairman of the House China Select Committee, said Wednesday that reports of TSMC-made chips in Huawei devices "represent a catastrophic failure of US export control policy." He called for "immediate answers from both BIS and TSMC about the scope and volume of this disaster." Taiwan respects US export control measures and will communicate this fully to TSMC, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo told reporters on Wednesday. BIS officials had met with TSMC executives in mid-October about issues related to the chipmaker's supply chain, including whether third-party distributors may provide China access restricted technology, according to another person familiar with the matter, who described that meeting as collaborative. It was unclear if they touched on the client discovery. AI accelerators — chips used to develop artificial intelligence models — have become a prized commodity in the tech industry.