SK Hynix is off the hook as TechInsights says that the RAM and NAND chips used in the Mate 60 Pro came from Huawei’s inventory.
It looked like someone was going to get a spanking a week ago when it was discovered that the Huawei Mate 60 Pro contained an LPDDR5 12GB RAM chip and a 512GB NAND Flash memory chip. This seemed to violate U.S. export rules preventing foundries using U.S. technology from shipping chips to Huawei without a license. So either SK Hynix, a foundry, Huawei, or both, was going to be accused of failing to follow U.S. sanctions.SK Hynix says that it has not done any business with Huawei since the chip sanctions started in the fall of 2020
The South Korean-based SK Hynix said that it had not done business with Huawei since the chip-related sanctions against the Chinese manufacturer started in 2020. The chipmaker said that it was looking into the matter and company Vice Chairman Park Jung-ho said, «We have had absolutely no business (with Huawei). We are investigating the circumstances. Huawei’s new smartphone is a well-made product … and we need to check more closely what kind of DRAM is being used in that phone.» The company itself said in a statement that it «no longer does business with Huawei since the introduction of the U.
