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Due to the new sanctions applied by the US administration, Huawei will no longer be able to receive new components for its equipment. Initially, the affected companies were TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), which, using North American equipment and technology, could no longer manufacture Kirin SoC (System-on-Chip). A similar situation applied to North American companies, such as Google, which meant that Huawei could only use the Android operating system, but without access to Google’s mobile services.
To try to get around the situation, Huawei tried to negotiate with Samsung and SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation) for the manufacture of SoC Kirin, but since they also used North American technology and equipment to manufacture their components, they were forced to reject Huawei’s orders.
SMIC itself, a Chinese government-owned semiconductor component manufacturing company that had received a $ 2.2 billion investment to upgrade its production lines, was recently threatened by the Trump administration of facing sanctions similar to Huawei’s if producing. components for the Shenzhen smartphone manufacturer.
As if the situation was not bad enough for Huawei, today it was the turn of Samsung and SK Hynix to announce that they will stop selling components to the Chinese manufacturer as of September 15. We recall that both Samsung and SK Hynix are essential for the supply of memory chips, not only for the RAM of their components, but for storage.
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