Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei talked about using self-research in an internal speech in 2012
Ren Zhengfei's understanding of Huawei and even the global market has always been sober and rational.
Although Huawei has set up Hisilic Semiconductor since 2004 to invest in the road of chip self-research, and little results, it also completed self-rescue when the initial chip supply was cut off. But this still does not allow Huawei to escape from round after round of bans.
Since Huawei was completely cut off from the supply of chips, Huawei's consumer business such as the mobile phone business is not as good as before. At the same time, Qualcomm and TSMC, the chip manufacturers that have long supplied Huawei, have also lost a lot, such as Qualcomm, which has lost at least $8 billion (about 512 billion yuan) in the market.
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Based on the pressure brought by the significant loss of revenue, various manufacturers including Qualcomm, ASML, TSMC, and Intel have submitted applications to the United States in order to obtain the permission to ship freely.
According to the news, the current free shipment license manufacturers have included Intel, AMD, etc., some products and technologies are allowed to sell. According to this view, Huawei's chip dilemma seems to be gradually clear.
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More recently, it has been reported that Qualcomm has also obtained a free license to sell some products and technologies to Huawei. Of course, this news was not disclosed by Qualcomm or Huawei, but was discovered by bystanders with a keen sense of smell.
Huawei unveiled its new generation MatePad Pro tablet at an offline event. According to reports, the 12.6-inch MatePad Pro uses the Kirin 9000 series chip, and the 10.8-inch MatePad Pro uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4G version of the 870 processor.
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You know, Qualcomm 870 chip is the chip released in January this year, originally after September 15 last year, Huawei can no longer obtain chips from outside, even TSMC is no longer Huawei foundry chips.
But now the Qualcomm 870 chip appears on Huawei's new product, indicating that the chip restrictions on Huawei have been released, and Qualcomm has obtained the license to ship to Huawei, but it may be limited to U.S. companies at present.
Unfortunately, the Qualcomm 870 chip sold to Huawei does not contain 5G functions, which is related to the partial limitation of the shipment license, so Huawei can only purchase the 4G version of the chip at present.
According to relevant news, Qualcomm's future 4G version and Wifi version of the Snapdragon 888 processor are likely to be prepared for Huawei. All in all, things are looking good for Huawei.
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In addition to chips, Huawei's Hongmeng OS operating system has entered the open source stage. But so far, domestic mobile phone companies willing to use the system
In 2021, the United States provided Huawei with computer chips and mobile phone chips, and Huawei's normal production and sales of notebook computers show that the United States provided computer chips, Huawei's tablet computer uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chip is also normal production and sales, and the p50 series released on July 29 also uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chip, which is available for sale in September. This also proves that the US provides Huawei with mobile phone chips!
Chips, but only 4g chips not 5g chips
2021 The United States to Huawei to provide chips, but can only improve the 4g chip or last year's 865 processor,