They have maintained this opportunity since the presidency of Donald Trump.
Representatives of government agencies in the United States have long expressed bewilderment that the American companies Intel and Qualcomm have an export license, giving them the right to supply the Chinese Huawei Technologies with their processors, while AMD was officially deprived of such an opportunity. Judging by a Bloomberg publication, the administration of the current US President has found grounds for revoking the export licenses of Intel and Qualcomm.
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Now Huawei will not be able to legally use Intel and Qualcomm processors in its laptops and smartphones. The export license used by both American companies was issued to them during the reign of Donald Trump, and the US authorities decided to revoke it only now. Qualcomm recently explained that its cooperation with Huawei is vanishingly small and does not take into account export restrictions. It could supply the Chinese client only with chips that support 4G networks, but it did not have the right to supply the latest solutions with 5G support. As with Intel, Huawei was not one of Qualcomm's ten largest customers.
The impact of the decision of the American authorities on Intel's business will be minimal, since Huawei supplies no more than 5 million desktop PCs and laptops annually, and this corresponds to only 2% of the global market. Even if Huawei relied entirely on Intel in this area, such a loss would not be the worst for the latter. Huawei’s ability to obtain 7nm processors from the Chinese contractor SMIC, bypassing sanctions from the United States and its allies, has haunted American officials since last fall, and the new countermeasure against Huawei symbolically shows that they are not going to reduce the pressure on the flagship of Chinese industry.
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