Huawei is building a new chip factory to circumvent US ban

Huawei’s operations face great difficulties following the latest US ban, that cut access to chip supply. Now according to Financial Times, the Shenzhen company is now preparing its own chipset plant (instead of relying on TSMC) that will run on behalf of the in-house R&D business and will be backed by the local government.

It will initially be able to only manufacture 45nm chipsets that were initially introduced back in 2007.

Earlier this year Richard Yu, CEO of the consumer business group at Huawei, revealed the company can no longer make its own chips, meaning it has to start from square one. The FT report said 28nm chipsets will be manufactured by the end of 2021 - such platforms are useful for IoT devices; by 2022 Huawei will eventually be able to yield 20nm chips that would be useful for the 5G base station business.

The Chinese company is highly unlikely to get any smartphone-worthy chips from its new factory in the next few years and a 5nm process technology is wishful thinking at best. However, latest reports indicate that Qualcomm might be able to get a license and supply the Chinese giant.

 

[FreeAllYouCan-OFFICIAL]

but they will ba manufacturing 12-20mm chips daw, a big waste

 

[Kentify]

No more flagship and midrange device for the next 5 years. It's either they make it their own (which I highly doubt that they can make it) or accept the Qualcomm offer

 

[Kentify]

Who will even buy that underperforming and power hungry 12-20mm? Their hopes and dreams are shattered

 

[FreeAllYouCan-OFFICIAL]

actually qualcomm made it possible for them to acquire chipset because Qualcomm made special permissions from US

 

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[XX='Kentify, c: 463674, m: 39260'][/XX]
exactly, and kung ganun sir mas mabilis pa mediatek sa kanila hahaha not undermining mediatek though especially sa gseries nila

 

[Kentify]

[XX='FreeAllYouCan-OFFICIAL, c: 463679, m: 737730'][/XX] There is no solid information/evidence that China would accept their offer... and if you base the news on this thread.. more likely they're trying to make their own in-house chip than bowing to the demands of the US.

But sadly, China is not even a big player when it comes to advance technology.. They dont innovate but s†éál from other countries :/

Developing this technology requires billions of dollars of investment and cooperation from other country... since China is somewhat exclusive to their own country and have finacial difficulties right now.. for me its not their time to fight back from these restrictions.

 

[Kentify]

True ..Meanwhile, SMIC is the only company that is capable of manufacturing 14nm chips in China but sadly they're using 3/4 of its equipment from US and is facing restriction also

 

[Kentify]

[XX='FreeAllYouCan-OFFICIAL, c: 463679, m: 737730'][/XX] And if they accepts their offer.. Huawei will be doing a design overhaul kasi nga yung chipset nila are optimized sa phone nila mismo while Qualcomm uses another architecture..

This will be a waste of time and money on their part. Their best bet is to manufacture it on their own

 

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[XX='Kentify, c: 463734, m: 39260'][/XX]
nahihirapan siguro actually ang huawei this time, pero idk if kakayanin nila or not but restrictions cannot make them to fail,

 

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[XX='Kentify, c: 463722, m: 39260'][/XX]
yes, US should reconsider, ma pride din kasi because they are really strict when it comes to privacy and security

 

[Kentify]

[XX='FreeAllYouCan-OFFICIAL, c: 463777, m: 737730'][/XX] Kasi nga yung US mas favor nila yung Open trade while China does not what to buy goods coming from the US .. they block google, facebook and etc..

What US is doing right now is to implement fair and equal trade and since china is not doing that then the US mad

Also, China is s†éáling their technology and integrate it to their military kaya galit na galit sila

 

[Kentify]

[XX='FreeAllYouCan-OFFICIAL, c: 463770, m: 737730'][/XX] My prediction is.. they will leave the smartphone market and will be overturned by Xiaomi ..


Di naman siguro yan sila ma-babankrupt kasi nga supportado yan ng CCP.. I hope they will develop their own chipset and hopefully survive.

 

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[XX='Kentify, c: 463808, m: 39260'][/XX]

yan nga daw ang dahilan kaya galit ang us sa china because of s†éáling confidential information, bahala sila wala naman talaga tayo panama sa kanila

 

[Kentify]

[XX='FreeAllYouCan-OFFICIAL, c: 463838, m: 737730'][/XX] Affected tayo lahat kasi nga huawei yung cp natin if ma-shutdown na yung huawei.. wala na kwenta cp natin hahahaha

 

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[XX='Kentify, c: 463858, m: 39260'][/XX]
so true, kaya huawei kontinf tiis na lang at manalangin ka na si Biden ang mananalo

 

[Delta India Charlie Kilo]

I remember when they make shitty phones then all of a sudden naging number 1 android phone company na sila sa buong mundo? haha di naman halata na funded by CCP.

 

[rakatak]

my malaking alas ang huawei pagdating chipset at isa na don ang dati kung company INFINEON TECHNOLOGY no.1 customer huawei