On November 5, Bloomberg reported that Taiwan Province had denied a report published by the Financial Times, which reported that the Trump government had been pressuring TSMC to stop producing chips for Huawei. A spokesman for the relevant department of Taiwan Province told Bloomberg that they had not received any request from the US government to stop TSMC from supplying Huawei.
TSMC said that they did not know that the United States was trying to prevent them from producing chips for Huawei. Liu Deyin, chairman of TSMC, said recently that since Apple is expected to launch 5G iPhone models next year, TSMC's performance will grow significantly in 2020.
TSMC is a company that converts chip designs of Qualcomm, Apple, Huawei and other companies into chips for mobile phones, tablets, computers and other devices. The Kirin 990 used in Huawei Mate 30 series is designed by HiSilicon Semiconductor and OEM by TSMC. In fact, Huawei is TSMC's second largest customer after Apple.
ARM Holdings, a British chip design company, announced at the end of last month that it would change its position on Huawei. Initially, ARM Holdings claimed that it would cut off the connection with Huawei because it used some American technologies in its design. However, ARM Holdings recently concluded that "ARM v8 and v9 are both UK based technologies." This means that Huawei does not have to worry about the chip purchase of future products after there are no problems with technology and OEM.
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