According to the resource Digitimes, citing industry sources in Taiwan, Huawei anticipated the current sanctions from the United States in advance and began to build stocks of components for its electronics at the end of last year. According to preliminary estimates, they will last until the end of 2019.
Recall that after the announcement of the blacklisting of Huawei by the US authorities, several large IT companies refused to cooperate with it at once. Google, Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx and Broadcom were among those who decided to stop supplying their technologies to the Chinese brand.
In order to ensure its uninterrupted supply of semiconductor components, Huawei required its Taiwanese partners to begin deliveries of previously placed orders as early as the first quarter of 2019. According to experts, this will mitigate the consequences of the restrictions imposed by the United States until at least the end of the year.
At the same time, as Digitimes notes, not only Huawei, but also its suppliers will suffer from US sanctions. For example, Taiwanese TSMC manufactures almost all HiSilicon Kirin mobile processors, which are used as a hardware platform in Huawei and Honor smartphones. Last Monday the chipmaker that, despite the current situation, will not stop supplying Huawei with mobile chips. However, if under the pressure of circumstances the Chinese manufacturer is forced to reduce the volume of orders for their release, this will negatively affect the financial performance of TSMC.
Source: 3dnews.ru