The most important news in the world of technology during 2019 was, without a doubt, the prohibition of the American government that any American company could trade with Huawei. The United States Department of Commerce has granted 90-day licenses to allow them to continue trading, licenses that have been continually renewed.
However, the last license expired on August 13 (it was issued on May 15), a license that has not been renewed and that could be the finishing touch for Huawei. What does it mean? What American companies can no longer trade with Huawei, nor software companies like Google or Microsoft, nor hardware companies like Intel or Qualcomm.
In the case of Google it means that Google services will stop updating on Huawei terminals that the company currently has on the market and that were launched before the American government's ban in 2019.
By not receiving updates through Google services, this could put smartphone security at risk of the company if new security vulnerabilities are detected in the future since customers will not have the possibility of manually downloading the updates that Google regularly releases of its services.
At the moment we do not know what is going to happen, due to the politics surrounding this situation, so the license may be renewed one more time or that the administration of the American government turns a blind eye and does not apply it rigorously.
In recent weeks, Qualcomm is pressuring the American government to allow it trade with Huawei, now that he can no longer ddepend on TSMC to manufacture its Kirin processors. Considering that the trade war between China and the United States is far from over, Qualcomm is unlikely to be able to get this license.
