TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months

Post by LdSGSgvupDV » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 6:34 AM UTC

qlk1123 wrote: post #338

_7fvc wrote: post #260

I see this news as a loss for the US. It has to resort to regulations to stop TSMC from doing business with Huawei. When you can't incentivize your ally, that means your opponent's business is still very attractive. Regulations will only cripple your ally. Taiwan may comply on the outside. But inside, they'll cut under-the-table deals with China. They'll find loop holes to skirt regulations. Taiwan seems to be headin…

That's why President Tsai Ing-Wen propose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Southbound_Policy Hopefully such movements can reduce the business interests in Taiwan towards China in the long run, and establish multilateral-ism with many identities other than China. > Taiwan seems to be heading to be the next Hong Kong. Don't remember we have military forces and it happens to be Han-Kuang Military Exercise recently: htt…

Post by Nokinside » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:15 AM UTC

ytch wrote: post #274

Nokinside wrote: post #28

What this means is that TSMC stops producing Huawei designed chips. Huawei has to buy third party designed and manufactured chips, most likely MediaTek. Manufactured in TSMC factories but not Huawei designed or Huawei owned IP.

IIRC, if you want to use 5G/4G with MTK chip, you need to pay license fee to QCOM? and US can still ban this.