ARM now says it’ll continue supplying chip technology to Huawei

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The trade war between the United States and China has brought a lot of chaos in the technology industry. Even some of the non-US companies decided to stop doing business with Huawei, ARM being one of the first. The United Kingdom-based chip manufacturer halted manufacturing the technology for the Chinese company right after Trump’s order to prohibit US companies from working with Huawei. The original ban was issued on the 16th of May, with ARM following on May 22nd. Though, now it turns out that ARM is ready to continue developing for Huawei.

As you probably already know, Huawei uses HiSilicon Kirin chips for its devices. While the Chinese OEM is responsible for the specifics and design of the system-on-chip, ARM is the architecture they’re using. It goes without saying that ARM’s hesitation to supply chip technology to Huawei would drastically affect the manufacturing plans of the devices. All of the latest Huawei SoCs, including the Kirin 990 5G chip is based on the ARM architecture. Due to the fact that outside of the United Kingdom ARM also operates from a couple of offices in the US, it was necessary to research whether its chip designs included “US-origin technology.”

After months of hesitation and confusion, it looks like ARM’s legal time has finally decided that the company’s relationship with Huawei will not breach the US’ trade ban on Huawei devices. In a talk with Reuters, an ARM spokeswoman confirmed that “ARM’s v8 and v9 are UK-origin technologies,” later also saying the company will continue developing for Huawei. This makes the manufacturing and production process for Huawei a lot easier, as they are striving to become the #1 smartphone manufacturer in the world. You can read our previous write-up about ARM’s distancing decision to get an idea about the situation.

Source: Reuters

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