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The Verge has a story about the latest in the US government's war against Huawei:
Following the US crackdown on Chinese technology companies, Google has cut off Huawei’s Android license, dealing a huge blow to the besieged phonemaker. Reuters first reported the news, and The Verge subsequently confirmed Google’s suspension of business with Huawei with a source familiar with the matter.
Reached for comment, a Google spokesperson said only “We are complying with the order and reviewing the implications.” The order, in this case, appears to be the US Commerce Department’s recent decision to place Huawei on the “Entity List,” which as Reuters reports is a list of companies that are unable to buy technology from US companies without government approval.
Speaking to Reuters, a Google spokesperson confirmed that “Google Play and the security protections from Google Play Protect will continue to function on existing Huawei devices.” So while existing Huawei phones around the world won’t be immediately impacted by the decision, the future of updates for those phones as well as any new phones Huawei would produce remains in question.
Huawei is now restricted to using the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), cutting the company off from critical Google apps and services that consumers outside of China expect on Android devices. That also means Huawei will only be able to push security updates for Android once they’re made available in AOSP, assuming the company uses its own update system. It’s not clear yet how this will affect the full range of Android integrations that Huawei depends on, but we will update this story when we receive additional clarification about the impacts of Google’s decision.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @05:48PM (3 children)
FTFY...
Huawei has also been preparing for this eventuality by stockpiling chips from US suppliers to last it at least three months, which should be enough time to steal/copy the technology and mass produce their own chips.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 20 2019, @06:07PM (1 child)
What about that plant in Chengdu? It's only an assembly and testing facility, not an actual fab. How will that play into this little drama?
How about the 3D NAND plant in Dalian? 3D NAND aren't CPU's, but China has leverage on Intel all the same, with that plant located in China.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday May 20 2019, @08:55PM
That is a good point. This trade war is going to get interesting.
I did hear that trade wars are good and easy to win though, so it should be fine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @03:59PM
AMD deal with china may be the next source of CPU chips for Huawei.