TSMC will no longer accept orders from Huawei Starting September
Starting September 14 TSMC will stop accepting orders from Chinese company Huawei, leaving it without a partner to manufacture its chips.
This is due to the United States sales restrictions prevent selling all products manufactured with US patents to Huawei. TSMC currently manufactures the full range of products for HiSilicon, Huawei's subsidiary dedicated to chip design. This includes the Kirin chips used in the company's smartphones, and the new Kunpeng SOCs for desktop computers, so Huawei will be in serious trouble losing TSMC. Reuters just confirmed this information as well.
The Chinese giant will have to find who makes these SOCs, since they are a key part of its business, and according to industry sources, it would already be talking to SMIC, a semiconductor manufacturing company that uses 100% Chinese technology. However, SMIC only makes chips at 14nm, so it's not enough for the brand's top-performing products, and they will have to continue the search. The problem is that almost all the other companies in the field use US technology, so they are not enabled to sell to Huawei, leaving it in Checkmate.
It will be interesting to see what solution Huawei finds to this problem, or if it ends up reaching an agreement with the United States to get out of this complex situation.
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Thanks to decades of stealing our intellectual property and the myopia of American politicians (both Republicans and Democrats) and the desire of Americans for cheap products, China shot like a rocket onto the World stage. No other nation is as responsible for China's success as the U.S.
But now the U.S, and the rest of the World is finally getting wise to their antics. Eventually, China is going to plummet like a meteor just as spectacularly as how they rose to prominence.
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This is so dumb
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Thanks to decades of stealing our intellectual property and the myopia of American politicians (both Republicans and Democrats) and the desire of Americans for cheap products, China shot like a rocket onto the World stage. No other nation is as responsible for China's success as the U.S.
But now the U.S, and the rest of the World is finally getting wise to their antics. Eventually, China is going to plummet like a meteor just as spectacularly as how they rose to prominence.
No it won't
At least not with without milion of people suffering from the situation.
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It would be funny if China decides to stop production for the USA for the mere purpose of making this change even.
I wonder how long the USA would last if that happens

I bet the US government would face sanity, even if it's just for a moment. I wish this would happen, just so we can see it happening.
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China needs to be downgraded we can all agree, but the U.S has exported in the past few decades far too much of our manufacturing capability and jobs overseas as it is. We don't even manufacture basic drugs.
The TPP would have further aggravated that liability even more.