On May 24, it was reported that TSMC was producing chipsets and modems for Huawei subsidiary Hisense, and would do the same in the future. A TSMC spokesman said recently that although many companies have cut off contact with Huawei, TSMC will continue to cooperate with Huawei.

Kirin SoC uses the CPU (Cortex) and GPU (Mali) designed by ARM. It is reported that ARM has suspended cooperation with Huawei recently, but Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, said in a recent media interview that this has no impact on Huawei. Huawei has obtained permanent authorization for the ARM architecture. It is easy to judge from the above two things that TSMC is still producing Hisense chips, including Kirin 980.

Some netizens worry that Hisense's next generation mobile SoC Kirin 985 will have a difficult birth, but an ARM source told the BBC that Kirin 985 should not be affected by the ban. This SoC should be used for Huawei Mate 30 series mobile phones, and may not be equipped with Android system. There is uncertainty at present.

It is worth noting that the media recently reported that Huawei was cut off by Panasonic Group. In response to this, Panasonic Electric (China) Co., Ltd. recently issued a statement saying that at present, Panasonic Group supplies to China normally, and the rumor of "cut off" is untrue.

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