In May, Washington doubled down on its targeting of tech giant Huawei, restricting its access to custom chips it has developed in recent years to power its 5G equipment…
As the CEO of Huawei Technologies Consumer Business Group, Richard Yu, updated users with news regarding the autumn release of the firm’s latest flagship, the Mate 40, he acknowledged that it might be the last to carry the company’s new high-end Kirin 9000 chips from HiSilicon, Huawei’s semiconductor subsidiary. Yu confirmed that discontinuation of the manufacturing of the powerful Kirin chipset, featuring new 5G technologies, AI processing capabilities, powerful Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and GPU performances, is due to new sanctions imposed by the US government and a sign of the growing impact of US pressure.
