In 2019, the United States placed Huawei on its Entity List, preventing the Chinese manufacturer from accessing its U.S. supply chain. U.S. companies must obtain a license from the U.S. Department of Commerce to do business with Huawei. Exactly a year later, the United States changed its export rules, banning foundries that use American technology to make chips from shipping cutting-edge (i.e., 5G) chips to Huawei.
Huawei Despite causing a stir in China and the United States last year, it did suffer from U.S. sanctions. wafer to achieve this goal. Because Huawei designs its own chipsets and has them produced by Chinese foundries, it ignores U.S. sanctions and its new Kirin chips support 5G. This makes the Mate 60 series the first Huawei flagship phone with a 5G-capable processor since the Mate 40 series in 2020.
While new chips and phones have sparked a wave of nationalism in China, U.S. lawmakers are ecstatic. Earlier this year, when rumors surfaced that Huawei and SMIC were teaming up to produce more advanced chipsets for the Mate 70 series,
Sales of blood pressure medication soar in Washington, D.C.. While we spotted the Kirin 9020 processor used to power the Mate 70 series
Nothing more than incremental improvements U.S. lawmakers still plan to sharpen their pencils compared to last year’s silicon chips in order to draft new legislation.
Top of the range Huawei Mate 70 RS ultimate design. |Image source-Huawei
The new bill would ban companies that sell computer chips and provide services to Huawei from doing business with the Pentagon.
Bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act Sales of semiconductors, wafer manufacturing equipment and tools used to design semiconductors to Huawei and its affiliates will be prohibited.
Companies involved in chipmaking and chipmaking tools will have to decide whether to stop doing business with Huawei or end up losing sales to the Pentagon. Considering the Pentagon committed $460 billion in contracts last year, it’s easy to guess what these companies will decide to do.
In 2021, 2022 and 2023, Huawei will be able to use versions of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon application processor to support its flagship phones such as P50, Mate 50 and P60. Qualcomm has received permission from the U.S. Department of Commerce to ship these chipsets to Huawei. These components are tuned not to work with 5G signals. However,
Earlier this year, the U.S. revoked Qualcomm’s license.
If the bill passes the House and Senate, it must be signed by the president. Any new sanctions against Huawei would not be implemented until 270 days after the president signs the bill.
