The decision comes after last month’s launch of Huawei’s first laptop with artificial intelligence, the MateBook X Proequipped with Intel’s new Core Ultra 9 processor.
That announcement caused criticism from Republican legislatorswhich they said suggests that the Department of Commerce had given the green light to Intel to sell the chip to Huawei.
The US relaxed trade bans with Huawei
The United States included Huawei on a list of trade restrictions in 2019 out of fear that he might spy on Americans, as part of a broader effort to hamper China’s ability to strengthen its military.
appear in the list means that the company’s suppliers They have to look for a special and difficult-to-obtain license before shipping.
Even so, providers of Huawei have received billions of dollars worth of licenses to sell goods and technology from Huawei, including a particularly controversial authorization issued by the Trump administration that allowed Intel to ship core processors to Huawei for use in its laptops. since 2020.
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More pressure from the US on China in the war over semiconductors
Last February, the government of the president Joe Biden pressure had increased on the China’s leading chip maker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), which already faces sanctions, with a restriction on imports from the United States of its most advanced factory, after it designed a sophisticated chip for Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro phone.
Late last year, the Commerce Department sent dozens of letters to U.S. suppliers of SMIC, suspending permission to sell to its most advanced plant, said two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Although many companies had already stopped selling to SMIC South, as the unit is known, the letters halted shipments of millions of dollars worth of chip-making materials and parts from at least one supplier, Entegris, said one of the people.
Source: Ambito
