The fight between the United States and China is still very much alive and now according to the well-known media Asian Nikkei Another prominent news item jumps, the manufacturer of TSMC processors would have completely blocked the manufacture of processors for the new smartphones of the Chinese firm.
A few days ago we shared the news about the new plant that TSMC will have in the United States for the processor manufacturing and now this news appears could have some kind of relationship with her. Without a doubt, if it were a reality, it would be a new and hard blow for Huawei.
The month of May 2019 was the moment in which the veto of another of the greats to Huawei began, yes, Google stopped giving official support to the firm and with it the Chinese firm was quite affected. Now although this "new stick" is not officially confirmed by Huawei it seems to be a reality and TSMC will supply the latest demands made by the Chinese firm but will not accept new orders.
As we read in Asian Nikkei, TSMC would have made this decision to comply with the regulation on export control that the Donald Trump government imposed. This is almost certainly a good stick for TSMC that loses a great customer and another hard blow for Huawei and we are talking about TSMC's second largest customer in terms of processors the first is apple. We will see how Huawei is able to withstand this new blow but it looks pretty bad. The trade war between the United States and China continues ...