Wednesday, August 12th 2020
Qualcomm Could Deliver Chips to Huawei
In the ave of the news that Trump administration has forbidden TSMC to have Huawei as its customer, Huawei seems to be exploring new options for sourcing the best performing mobile processors. As the company has turned to the Chinese SMIC semiconductor factory, it still needs a backup plan in the case of Chinese semiconductor manufacturing flops. So to combat US sanctions, Huawei will use already made chips form the US company - Qualcomm. By sourcing the processors from Qualcomm, Huawei is losing some benefits of customs design like better system integration, however, it will gain quite powerful mobile processors. As Qualcomm is known for providing the fastest processors for Android smartphones, Huawei has ensured that it remains competitive. Qualcomm is reportedly now negotiating with the US government about delivering the chips to Huawei, and if it is allowed, Qualcomm will gain a big customer.
Source:
Hardwareluxx.de
15 Comments on Qualcomm Could Deliver Chips to Huawei
As of right now, Qualcomm can not sell to Huawei just as TSMC and a whole raft of others cannot. That has not changed.
And until it changes, stuff like this is mostly click-bait journalism.
If anything, Orange Man (Bad) had only made the things worse for himself. Huawei were planning on total self sufficiency for quite some time. They were just forced their hand. Even if Orange Man (Bad) wins the next election (pff, right :roll: ) he still won't be able to burry them. Maybe slow them at best? Uhm, don't Qualcomm just license and build on ARM stuff, i.e. the fight for ARM's IP gets even more important for all of us?
Every silicon manufacturer could deliver chips to Huawei
But who would do it ?
Now France are getting involved by sending out ships to try and stave off possible conflict. What a mess.
Same reports coming out all over the web. Jobs at risk, shareholders aren't happy, etc, etc. Nothing misleading about it.
I think this is potentially a good thing. Huawei effectively can't make their own SOCs anymore and want to buy Qualcomm SOCs in bulk to put into their devices. It's a win-win.
What does annoy me reading some of comments, is the the sly undertones that all Chinese tech companies are evil and we should avoid doing business with them.
I can see my comment may cause a shit storm with some, but I defend my thinking.