It was seen coming, since the trade wars have not ended no matter how much HUAWEI has finally accessed 5G and presented new top-of-the-range mobile phones
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Lately everything has been good news within a HUAWEI which had even been reborn with HarmonyOS at least in China, managing to once again launch smartphones with 5G connectivity and maintaining a large number of good products like laptops and wearableswhich are now in danger from a new ban by the United States government.
It was something that was intuited in recent times, why deny it, but now it has just been officially confirmed that The Joe Biden Administration has revoked Qualcomm and Intel’s trade licenses with HUAWEI, already preventing the San Diego and Santa Clara companies from selling chips to the Shenzhen manufacturer. Yahoo colleagues confirmed it recently.
For now the precise details of this decision have not been communicated, but Michael McCaul, president of the Foreign Affairs Committeehas not hesitated to confirm it directly, stating that the ban is total and there will be no exceptions.
The United States government continues to suspect HUAWEI, which is why the sanctions are immediately tightened and Intel and Qualcomm will be strictly prevented from selling any type of chip, without exceptions, to the Chinese manufacturer.
It is necessary to clarify this well, because certainly after the initial veto of Donald Trump’s government and his departure from the White House, bans were minimally eased enabling companies in the United States to supply chips and processors to HUAWEI on the condition that they were not equipped with 5G modems nor were they installed in products with 5G mobile connectivity.
This is how HUAWEI could sustain your laptop businessfor example, and even launch smartphones with the latest processors Qualcomm Snapdragon that had implemented a 4G modem inside, instead of the most modern one with access to 5G SA/NSA.
It is now confirmed that the ban is total, without exceptions, affecting any type of chip or processor that Intel or Qualcomm could be supplying to HUAWEI, something they will not be able to do right now. The idea of HUAWEI is too close to the Chinese government is still there, so this represents another step in the restrictions previously imposed.
Sources say that probably the 7 nanometer chips with 5G that HUAWEI manufactures together with the Chinese SMIC could be the cause of suspicions, since it is likely that HUAWEI has cheated using prohibited technology.
What does this mean? Well then HUAWEI will no longer be able to sell PCs either with integrated Intel or Qualcomm processors, something that we understand will extend to AMD if they want to take the place of their compatriots. It does not mean the end of the Chinese company although it complicates things a lot for themsince HUAWEI has already produced “in an independent way” with the local Chinese foundry SMIC its first chips with 5G connectivity, although with 7 nanometer lithographs and very far from the 3 or 4 nanometer ones that Samsung or TSMC are already working on.
Perhaps the latter explains the center of the controversy, since It is suspected that HUAWEI could have used American technology to create these 5G chips together with SMIC, something that has intensified the battle that from the United States It could even be extended to other Chinese companies. Intel has not commented, but Qualcomm reported that its shipments to HUAWEI had decreased drastically, and that they will comply with the dictated standards.
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