By imposing restrictions on Huawei, the US may force the Chinese company to do something that no one in tech has dared to do for a long time: challenge Google’s control of the Android universe.
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As Donald Trump continues to raise the stakes with threats to kneecap Huawei and other companies over what the US says are rising national security risks, officials in Beijing are weighing their options to respond.
Phone companies are scrapping plans to sell Huawei handsets as the impact of a US supply ban spreads, threatening to impede the Chinese technology giant’s global smartphone ambitions.
UK-based chip designer ARM has reportedly informed employees not to work with Chinese technology giant Huawei.
Hikvision plunged as much as the daily limit after the New York Times said the Trump administration was considering curtailing the flow of American technology to China’s top maker of video surveillance gear.
Huawei said it’s working on its own operating system for its mobile handsets, and will consider rivals to Google’s Android, after the US blacklisted the company.
US President Donald Trump’s move to put Huawei on an export blacklist threatens to shake the entire telecommunications industry.
Many view the US action against Huawei Technologies as just another twist in President Donald Trump’s broader trade war. That may be naive.
The first great power rivalry of the 21st century has begun. It is not a re-run of the Cold War, however. Instead, this rivalry will look unlike any that has come before it.
Huawei Technologies made a pitch to app makers last year: build software for a new Huawei app store outside China, and we’ll help you inside the world’s most populous nation.