TSMC will no longer accept orders from Huawei Starting September

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/20/2020 09:25 AM | source: techpowerup | 53 comment(s)

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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anticupidon

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#5810613 Posted on: 07/20/2020 09:37 AM

That's unexpected. At least for me.

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#5810614 Posted on: 07/20/2020 09:39 AM

"Free world market totally unbiased and unregulated"
What a joke.

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#5810626 Posted on: 07/20/2020 10:39 AM

Is the US trying to provoke a premature war with China pushing them against a wall the same way they did with Japan in the 1930s'?

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#5810628 Posted on: 07/20/2020 10:43 AM

Guess the filthy Commie's will need to make their own chips.

Cold War still going apparently.

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#5810632 Posted on: 07/20/2020 10:52 AM

They already doesn't accept new orders from Huawei since mid-may this year, like the source you're pointing at say.
Mid-September, Huawei will receive their last taped out products from TSMC. Their stock will probably hold until early next year.

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