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TSMC Dumps Huawei

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 19 2020, @01:16AM   

takyon writes:

TSMC reportedly stops taking orders from Huawei after new U.S. export controls

Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract semiconductor maker, has stopped taking new orders from Huawei Technologies, one of its largest customers, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. The report said the decision was made to comply with new United States export controls, announced last Friday, that are meant to make it more difficult for Huawei to obtain chips produced using U.S. technology, including manufacturing equipment.

Huawei hits back at US as TSMC cuts off chip orders

Huawei rotating chairman Guo Ping has hit back at the US government's stricter export controls intended to stop the Chinese tech giant from obtaining essential chips, following reports that its biggest supplier has already cut it off. "We still haven't figured it out," Guo said on stage at Huawei's annual analyst summit. "The US government still persists in attacking Huawei, but what will that bring to the world?"

"In its relentless pursuit to tighten its stranglehold on our company, the US government has decided to proceed and completely ignore the concerns of many companies and industry associations," Huawei adds in an official statement. "This decision was arbitrary and pernicious, and threatens to undermine the entire industry worldwide. This new rule will impact the expansion, maintenance, and continuous operations of networks worth hundreds of billions of dollars that we have rolled out in more than 170 countries."

"We expect that our business will inevitably be affected," Huawei's statement continues. "We will try all we can to seek a solution."

See also: Huawei Braces for Latest U.S. Hit, but Some Say Loopholes Remain
TSMC Accepts US Kill Order & Suspends Future Huawei Contracts

Previously: U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei
Washington in Talks with Chipmakers about Building U.S. Factories
TSMC Will Build a $12 Billion "5nm" Fab in Arizona

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• Re:sucks for consumers Re:sucks for consumers (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @02:27PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @02:27PM (#996354)

  I remember a brief period we could get this Kumho brand o tire for just $20 per. Way, way cheaper than any other brand. The tire store inflated that to $50 per tire with all their mounting fees, disposal fees, and so on. But it was still nice to get a whole new set of tires for only $200, and they were even decent quality, not the low end 30k mile stuff. Today, it's tough to get a new set of 4 for less than $500. Kumho was Chinese of course. Then the US imposed dumping fees, tariffs, and all that, and the $20 tire vanished from the marketplace never to be seen again.

  How long ago was this? Kumho Tires was only bought by a Chinese company in 2018. It was originally a South Korean company.

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• Re:sucks for consumers Re:sucks for consumers (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:30PM (1 child)

  by bzipitidoo (4388) on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:30PM (#996449) Journal

  About 20 years ago, as I recall.

  South Korean? We didn't check, just thought it had to be China, with that kind of name and price.

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  • Uhmm, what? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:30PM (#996519)

    Kumho has been a well respected brand of tire (even performance tires!) for 30+ years. They were the OEM tire for a number of japanese cars from the 1990s who didn't use Bridgestone/Firestone tires.

    My sports car had kumho tires almost 30 years ago now.

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