US chip giant Qualcomm has received a license from the US government allowing it to do business with Huawei again. The Chinese website 36Kr came up with the information.
Qualcomm, like other companies, had to stop working with the Chinese smartphone giant after the US Department of Commerce tightened sanctions against it a few months ago. Specifically, these were new measures to prevent Huawei from being able to use intermediaries to access technologies produced by American companies.
According to the report of the website 36Kr, about which the server informs Android Central, one of the conditions for Qualcomm to provide chips to Huawei was that the Chinese tech company divest itself of its Honor division, as Qualcomm does not currently have the capacity to add it to its portfolio. Coincidentally, Huawei o sale of Honor, or rather its smartphone division, is reportedly already in talks with the Chinese consortium Digital China and the city of Shenzhen.
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This would be more than good news for Huawei, as it cannot currently - through its subsidiary HiSilicon - manufacture its own Kirin chips. The last chip that the company produced was the Kirin 9000, which powers the phones of the new Mate 40 flagship series. Let's recall that Qualcomm supplied the Chinese giant with chips for budget smartphones in the past.
The American government's license enabling the resumption of cooperation with Huawei should have already been received by Samsung (more precisely, its Samsung Display division), Sony, Intel or AMD.
