Huawei and suppliers dust off backup plans to prepare for storm

Asian chipmakers TSMC, Toshiba Memory and Innolux assess US ban

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Huawei urged suppliers to keep making deliveries despite new U.S. measures that could block its access to key American technologies. (Nikkei montage/Getty Images)

CHENG TING-FANG, LAULY LI and RURIKA IMAHASHI, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI/TOKYO/NEW YORK -- Huawei Technologies is asking its top Asian chipmakers to maintain deliveries after Washington announced draconian measures to curb the Chinese telecommunications giant's access to American technology, sources familiar with the matter said.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the most important chip producer for Huawei's mobile and networking core processors, said it will maintain supplies for the time being even though it continues to assess the impact of Washington's decision this week to bar Huawei from receiving U.S. technologies.

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