US technology companies have resumed selling certain products to Huawei after concluding there are legal ways to work with the Chinese telecommunications giant in spite of sanctions.
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The US is blacklisting five Chinese organisations involved in supercomputing, calling them national security threats and cutting them off from critical US technology.
Huawei has claimed many of its newest devices will be able to receive the next version of the Android operating system, despite a US trade ban restricting access to products.
Nokia and Ericsson have recently wrested notable long-term deals from Huawei to build 5G wireless networks, with analysts say more could come their way as Huawei grapples with a US export ban.
Laptops made by Huawei have reappeared on the Microsoft online store after they were removed in the wake of a US executive order which cracked down on the Chinese company.
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei expects US sanctions to curtail its revenue by about $30-billion over the coming two years, wiping out its growth by withholding critical American technology.
Huawei is preparing for a 40% to 60% drop in international smartphone shipments as the Trump administration’s blacklisting hammers one of the Chinese tech giant’s most important businesses.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss the new department of communications & digital technologies – is it more of the same, or will it be the “department of action”?
As Huawei comes under unrelenting pressure from the Trump administration, it has one advantage that the US can’t undermine: a vast, global portfolio of patents on critical technology.
Huawei is to delay the launch of its first foldable smartphone, the Mate X, saying it wants to test the device further after rival Samsung suffered issues with its own foldable phone earlier this year.