Intel gets U.S. licences to supply some products to Huawei
Intel Corp INTC.CO has received licences from U.S. authorities to continue supplying certain products to Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL], an Intel spokesman said on Tuesday.
With U.S.-China ties at their worst in decades, Washington
has been pushing governments around to world to squeeze out Huawei, arguing
that the telecoms giant would hand data to the Chinese government for
espionage.
From September 15, new curbs have barred U.S. companies from
supplying or servicing Huawei.
This week the state-backed China Securities Journal said
Intel had received permission to supply Huawei.
Last week China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International
Corporation 0981.HK confirmed it had also sought permission to continue
servicing Huawei. SMIC uses U.S.-origin equipment to make chips for Huawei and
other companies.
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix 000660.KS also applied for
U.S. licence for Huawei sales, but it has not gained approval, a person
familiar with the matter said.
The person, declining to be identified as they were not
authorised to speak to media, said non-U.S. firms may not have a high chance of
getting U.S. approval, and chipmakers are drafting contingency plans to
increase supplies to other customers.
SK Hynix declined to comment.
In August, Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek Inc 2454.TW
disclosed it had applied to the U.S. government for permission to continue
supplying China's Huawei.
Huawei, founded in 1987 by a former engineer in China’s
People’s Liberation Army, denies it spies for Beijing and says the United
States is trying to smear it because Western firms are falling behind in 5G
technology.
In what some observers have compared to the Cold War arms
race, the United States worries that 5G dominance would give China an advantage
Washington is not ready to accept.
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