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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."
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by loonycyborg on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:24AM (8 children)
Western powers have no friends in Asia. Because friendship cannot be maintained by power of arms (Opium wars etc). China was world's trade leader for millennia, though sometimes its power waned due to various crises. Now it bounces back again after British Empire lost its power and its last splinter state, US, is on decline. To them British/US domination is not different than Mongol domination before.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @05:24PM
Very true, thousands of years of "progress" and their people have never been able to advance further than serfdom to a Emperor.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:02PM (3 children)
The hell are you on about? Of course Japan is an ally to the West, and the US, especially. Who else are they going to side with? China? Russia? And you think they'd have their trust/loyalty?
(Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Tuesday May 19 2020, @10:52PM (2 children)
For sure not with someone who nuked them. They could be semi-willing vassal though, because otherwise they're diplomatically isolated. They engaged in genocide against Chinese, etc..
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday June 01 2020, @03:34PM (1 child)
So their choice is between allying with the most powerful country in the world or being surrounded on all sides by enemies...I'll need a bigger brain to figure that one out!
(Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Tuesday June 02 2020, @07:21AM
The only sane choice in such situation is to cease to exist and their demographic trend shows that that's exactly what they're doing.
(Score: 2) by quietus on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:06PM (2 children)
Were they, really? Then they sure must have exported a lot to the rest of the world in that period, no?
What can you name, apart from silk and porcelain vases? Which advanced technology were they famous for?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:11PM (1 child)
Fireworks. And therefore explosives.
(Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday May 20 2020, @05:43AM
They used these for firing arrows, not bullets. The Europeans improved the recipe so it could be used with cannons (which required advanced metallurgic technology) and later, guns.