For the time being I understand that the ban doesn't actually stop Huawei from using ARM chips - it stops ARM from co-operating to help them build their own chips, e.g. their Kirin line of processors. So either they could just fork their design and stop keeping in lock-step with ARM (while maintaining a level of compatibility) or just start sourcing parts from third parties.
ARM is UK afaik and Huawei is not banned in UK. Maybe after brexit US will force UK to ban Huawei in return for a trade deal (IF brexit goes through and I always maintained that brexit would never happen)
As a Chinese and arm employee here, the ban makes me feel shame on the original motivation of creating the joint venture between local govement and arm, which is trying to help local companies like Huawei to work around the exactly ban like this.
Arm China really does a bad job. Besides, its empolyee turn over rate also rise to about more than 40% from 5% since the creation of Arm China due to the bad management:(
This war on Huawei is not about F/OSS but about depending on US suppliers. Intel and AMD have to stop supplying processors to Huawei and there are no viable F/OSS processors. Qualcomm will stop supplying SoCs. What does the US think this will achieve? What exactly does the US want Huawei to actually do to get rid of these bans? Do they think it will really hurt Huawei so much that they will give in to US pressure? I don't think so. What will happen is that Huawei and China in general will look to even more get rid of US dependencies. They will double down on efforts to make their own processors. They will get rid of Google and Microsoft proprietary software and if there is a proprietary chinese alternative then that would be also on the table. ARM is looking even more enticing now for notebooks. And once Huawei has replaced Intel/AMD, others will do so too.
Huawei will hurt in the immediate future but after a few years they might come out even stronger and the losers will be the US companies because their government created an artificial situation that forces non-US companies to really look into alternatives.
The Huawei ban, as I recall, was mostly about 5G equipment for which the primary competitor is Ericsson (based in Sweden). There wasn’t really a viable US alternative and the ban wasn’t protecting some US-based company.
It's a pretty bold move by ARM to stop working with Huawei even if it does believe that it's affected by the American ban. It seems like it's very likely to damage their image in the eyes of other non-western technology firms who could end up on America's radar. Won't a lot of execs be scratching their heads thinking, "what if we're next to be cut off in this trade war?"
It's hard for my brain to accept that the US literally bans its citizens from selling equipment containing chips from Huawei. You can't even sell them for reverse-engineering or hobby purposes.
I am struggling to make sense of this; if you go to a German mediamarkt (biggest electronic store here) Huawei still have a sizable presence with nice Intel based laptops and more curious android open source phones. All using American chips. This ban will kill this off.
Why now? Seems to be driven by internal US politics or perhaps a preparation for next meeting between US and Chinese officials (which seems to be going worse and worse on purpose).
Alternatively the US sees a strategic threat from Huawei’s HarmonyOS, which if it gets popular, and it requires good hardware to get popular, will be the first real non-US consumer operating system.
I believe the default action for Huawei for such block would actually be purposefully enact the ban on itself:
Stop all sales including spare parts, revoke signing keys, block IPs of cell towers and cloud control panels from that country, stop tech support, and look how soon they will change their musik
Huawei is banned because they installed backdoors for a hostile foreign government in their devices and got caught. Not "just" because they're foreign.
You can buy lots of Chinese made and foreign-made handsets in the US.
Really? Do you think Samsung and LG would be more likely to develop not to mention support an Android competitor? This ban is the best thing that happened to Korean mobile phone manufacturers for years.
Huawei was breathing down Sammy’s neck things are looking much bright for them now.
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