Several major tech hardware companies will no longer supply Chinese tech giant Huawei with the parts it needs to manufacture smartphones and other electronics, according to a new report from Bloomberg.
Several major tech hardware companies will no longer supply Chinese tech giant Huawei with the parts it needs to manufacture smartphones and other electronics, according to a new report from Bloomberg.
The list of companies that will no longer supply Huawei with semiconductors and chips reportedly includes Intel, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Xilinx, and Infineon so far. Google announced over the weekend that it would also stop working with Huawei, cutting off the Chinese company’s access to Google’s internal Android development tools for Huawei’s smartphones. Existing Huawei users will still get security updates, but newly produced smartphones will likely lose access to applications like Gmail in the near future.
As Bloomberg notes, Huawei likely has a 3-month stockpile of hardware to make it through the immediate future. But it’s not clear what kind of impact there will be on Huawei beyond the next three months.
The move comes after the Trump regime blacklisted Huawei last week over concerns that the company has close ties to the Chinese government.
