Ok, we are an Apple blog, but the news related to Huawei is still very important for the world of technology and we cannot look the other way. In addition, it is likely that the movements that are related to this sanction, at some point may affect Apple's sales in China.
ARM, a British company, has sent a memorandum to all its employees urging them to stop all current operations with Huawei in addition to its subsidiaries, in order to comply with the recent United States trade restriction, according to the BBC.
In that memo, the company states that its designs contain US-sourced technology, therefore they are affected by the restriction of the American government. According to different analysts with whom the BBC has contacted, this decision is even more important than having been left without access to Google services, since most of its processors, including the Kirin range that is available in all its smartphones , are built with ARM architecture, for which you pay a license.
ARM is currently the UK's largest technology company until it was acquired by Softbank in 2016. It currently has more than 6.000 employees and has 8 offices in the United States.
Huawei has sent a statement to the media once it has known this decision stating that:
We value our close relationships with our partners, but we recognize the pressure some of them are under as a result of political decisions.
We are confident that this unfortunate situation can be resolved and our priority continues to be to continue delivering technology and products to our customers around the world.
About ARM
ARM was founded in 1990 and is a chip designer. In September 2016, it was bought by the Japanese telecommunications giant Softbank, but it is still based in the United Kingdom, specifically in Cambridge. This company does not manufacture processorsInstead, it sells licenses for its semiconductor technologies.
In some cases, manufacturers only license the ARM architecture or "instruction sets" that determine how the processors handle commands. This option allows manufacturers a more freedom to customize your own designs. In other cases, manufacturers license ARM processor core designs, which describes how the transistors on the chips should be arranged and need to be combined with other elements such as memory.
Processors Samsung's Exymos, Qualcomm's Snapdragon, Apple's A-series and even Huawei's Kirin make use of these licenses on their processors. Considering that you can't use ARM's technology, that you can't buy your processors from Qualcomm, and that you probably won't be able to buy them from MediaTek (which also uses ARM technology), the future of smartphones for Huawei is very complicated.
ARM is not the only British company that has decided to cut its losses with Huawei. Vodafone, could also have started the way to stop selling the terminals from this Asian manufacturer, although we do not know what its justification may be. The United Kingdom has always been a faithful partner of the United States, so it is not surprising that both ARM and Vodafone are not the only ones to stop doing business with Huawei in the not too distant future.
… And these headlines happen when any fanboy tries to write an article. Regrettable.
I highly doubt that Huawei is dead, in fact I would bet money that it will not be like that.
You have precisely come across the least fanboy of all of us who write in Actualidad iPhone.
Logically, if I have put that headline, it is because it looks like this, unless you pull an ace up your sleeve that no one knows.
Everything can happen.