BEIJING: China said on Wednesday (Feb 26) that Taiwan was seeking to give away the island's semiconductor industry to the United States as a "souvenir" and leverage it to seek political support from Washington. US media have said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major supplier to companies such as Apple and Nvidia, has been in talks for a stake in Intel. Neither TSMC nor Intel has confirmed the reports and Taiwan's government says it has not