Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartphone vendor

Re:Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartpho... by HeWhoLurksLate on Sunday June 02, 2019 @02:41PM (#20077192)

Everybody does that to an extent- they'll just have to find some way of getting their CPU's (including their designs) directly from within China. This may not be as hard as people think with the Joint-Ownership thing that the Chinese government requires. I'm sure that chipmakers would love the business if they can get into China.

To address your comment- yes, they already do that, but because of loopholes, they probably won't have to develop a full stack.

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Re:Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartpho... by metildaa on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:48PM (#20077624)

Huawei has no 7nm fab available that will turn a blind eye to pirate ARM chips (since their ARM license was revoked), and it is unlikely any new 7nm fabs will be built in China soon. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077587

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Re:Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartpho... by HeWhoLurksLate on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:18PM (#20077831)

Wouldn't one of those joint-ownership project things where one company within China owns 51% of the project work out? It would have to be not Huawei, but would that work?

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Re:Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartpho... by metildaa on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:42AM (#20081647)

AMD did something very similar as a way to bypass tariffs in China (license their 1st gen 14nm Ryzen IP to a JV), but they've brought a ton of scrutiny to this loophole from both the USA & China, plus this trick won't work for Ryzen 2 since no 7nm fabs exist in China (and none are on the horizon).

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