A customer ordering chips on another’s behalf, as a Chinese company did for Huawei at TSMC. Chapters 5, 7.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 5 — The Island in Every Machine
Why every accelerator runs through Taiwan: the foundry, the packaging and the memory that are booked years ahead, and what that does to anyone arriving late with cash.
- Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade
Two governments deciding one trade: Washington’s export rules and Beijing’s instructions at the border, and what each did to the chip business it meant to shape.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Cut-out.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cut-out (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-cut-out-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Cut-out}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cut-out},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}