Huawei's current situation is not exactly good. The veto carried out by the United States It is significantly harming the Asian manufacturer. Sales of its phones have fallen massively in Europe and, yesterday we learned that the firm could not use microSD card slot in your solutions. But finally good news for Huawei.
Yes, the Shenzhen-based manufacturer will be able to continue to manufacture its Hisilicon Kirin SoC range. The reason? TSMC is not going to bow to US government restrictions. No, it will not join the veto Huawei to be carried out by Intel, Google and ARM among other brands. But how has he managed to escape this veto?
TSMC is not governed by US export rules, much to Huawei's relief
According to different media, the headquarters of TSMC is in Taiwan (its acronym is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co), and, as it is not subject to the import and export rules of the United States, it could be the manufacturer of Huawei's processors. Yes, the loss of ARM is a serious blow, but at least the firm still has a new supplier for this essential component for any electronic device of the company.
Furthermore, it seems that Huawei knew how to cover his back in advance before a possible veto by the United States government. In this way, the Asian firm has a permanent license that allows it to access the ARMv8 architecture for life, which means that it will be able to continue manufacturing chips based on this architecture.
As we have discussed, a nice breath of fresh air that sheds some light on Huawei's dark future. Yes, there is some possibility that the government of Donald Trump will lift the veto on the Asian manufacturer, but the blow that has taken the image of the company will be very difficult to recover. Seeing the problems you are having, and that you could have again in the future, do you would you buy a Huawei mobile?
