This Contract Chipmaker Said It Would Keep Supporting Huawei

The biggest contract chipmaker in the world, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, has just announced that it would keep shipping important semiconductors to Huawei. Meanwhile, the UK design firm ARM has ceased trade with the Chinese company.

At a technology symposium, TSMC pointed out although materials and intellectual property that are used to develop semiconductors would be the major targets of the US restrictions on Huawei, these new rules wouldn’t be applied on chip-making equipment.

According to the report from the Nikkei Asian Review on May 23,

Toshiba Corporation claimed that the Tokyo-based company would continue to deliver electronic components to Huawei. However, it hasn’t yet revealed what kinds of products will be supplied to the tech giant from China.

Among these Toshiba-made products, there may be large-scale integration (LSI) chipsets which help devices to handle a huge amount of data at the same time.

The report also pointed out,

In addition to TSMC and Toshiba, some other tech companies will resume all their shipments of components to Huawei – which don’t breach the US ban on the Chinese company – are Panasonic (Japan) and Lenovo Group (China).

On May 15, Donald Trump released a ban on Huawei after the US government accused it of the national security issues.

Besides, the US government required its allies to express their attitude concerning the Chinese government could make use of Huawei devices to approach users’ private information.

A series of global tech firms such as Google, Intel, Qualcomm, and Microsoft, have halted the shipment of components to Huawei to respond to the US ban.