On May 15th the US government introduced new sanctions on Huawei, tightening restrictions on the company’s use of American technology and threatening to drastically reshape the global technology supply chain.
The move is the latest in a long line of sanctions the US has placed on the vendor, which include adding the company to an ‘entity list’ last May which barred American companies from selling to Huawei and its affiliates unless the exporter held a specific license. In practice, however, last year’s sanctions could be comfortably navigated by simply purchasing chips manufactured outside the US, such as from the world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC)…read more on TotalTele.com »