U.S. administers the coup de grace to Huawei by expanding its chip ban
Huawei has been able to bounce back from every U.S.-imposed sanction
Last year’s Huawei Mate 50 Pro
This morning, Mao said during a press conference in Beijing that the U.S. action “goes against the principles of the market economy and rules of international trade and finance, hurts the confidence the international community has in the U.S. business environment and is blatant technological hegemony.” According to a person familiar with the situation, the U.S. is looking to ban shipments of items even under the 5G level including 4G parts, Wi-Fi 6 and 7, AI, and high-performance computing and cloud items.
At the end of the Trump administration and the start of the Biden administration, Huawei was able to receive 4G-only versions of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoCs. However, Huawei is no longer able to get approval for even 4G-only silicon. And China’s top foundry, SMIC, is unable to produce chips using the cutting-edge process nodes that TSMC and Samsung Foundry use. But that could change eventually.
Huawei’s patent application could be a huge game changer
Huawei has filed for a patent on components it has made for an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine (EUV) which is used to etch extremely thin circuitry patterns on silicon wafers. This machine is important because these patterns are thinner than human hair and with billions of transistors used in each chip, the EUV machine is a must-have. Unfortunately for China, the Dutch company that makes these school-bus-sized machines is banned by the Netherlands from shipping them to China.
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