A year after Huawei was banned in US, Japan's Kioxia received the green light to provide commodity chips and other products to the Chinese tech company. However, despite the new rulings, Huawei would still be unable to get its hands on smartphone memory chips to power its products under the US sanction.
Huawei logo pictured outside its headquarters building in Reading, Britain, July 14, 2020.
The Japanese memory solutions company, Kioxia, got approval from the United States to resume its dealings and ventures with the Chinese telecommunications company, Huawei, after ceasing operations. The Japanese company stopped its initial transactions with Huawei because of the US Entity List ban.
Huawei US Entity Ban: the US Allows Kioxia Transaction with Limited Products Only
Recent developments are now coming in favor of Huawei that opens up the business between the Chinese tech company and the Japanese memory chip maker. According to Nikkei Asia, the dealings between the two stopped last September 15 to adhere to the United States' entity list ban on supplying technology to Huawei.
The resumed dealings between Huawei and Kioxia, however, has a catch among the transactions. The Japanese company can only give commodity chips that serve as data center servers for Huawei's technology needs and still avoid supplying its smartphone technology that Kioxia provides beforehand.
Flash memory technology for smartphones that Kioxia is also famous for would not be included in the deals and transactions allowed by the US Entity Ban. This decision means that Huawei is still limited to several listed products as US licensed technology, despite the looser restriction.
Kioxia's smartphone flash memory technology was formerly used by the Japanese tech giant Toshiba as its memory unit. The flash memory tech is not revealed to be banned for Huawei or restricted by the United States to be handed over to the Shenzhen smartphone giant.
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Nikkei Asia added that other companies are given the go-signal to resume their dealings and businesses with Huawei after the 2019 ban that halted the transactions with several corporations. American tech giants, Intel and Qualcomm, are also joining in resuming its business ventures with Huawei.
BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 03: A visitor tries out the Huawei P40 Pro smartphone at the IFA 2020 Special Edition consumer electronics and appliances trade fair on the fair's opening day on September 03, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. The fair is taking place despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, albeit in a reduced form and without personal access for the general public. The IFA 2020 Special Edition will take place from September 3-5.
Intel will continue providing chips for personal computers and laptops that are part of Huawei's present lineup. The Matebook laptop from Huawei is reliant on Intel chips, and the US Entity Ban's leeway gave the Chinese company a chance to resume the use of Intel's products.
Moreover, the San Diego chip giant, Qualcomm, would also resume its dealings with Huawei, particularly with its 4G mobile chips for the Huawei smartphones' present lineup. The Entity Ban last 2019 affected Huawei and Qualcomm's business, giving the Chinese company no designs and smartphone chips.
Sony was also given the green light to resume its dealings with the Shenzhen giant last October 30 with its camera and image sensor technology that Huawei also used.
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Written by Isaiah Alonzo
