A US proposal to tighten the screw on chip supplies to Huawei would be to control sales by foreign chip companies, reports Reuters.
At the moment it is only a proposal, and President Trump has declined to implement the idea in the past but, with anti-China rancour growing in Washington, it could be revived,
The idea is to tell all foreign chip-making companies which use American chip-making equipment (i.e. all of them) that they have to get US permission to sell any of their chip output to Huawei.
US chip companies already have to ask the US government for permission to sell chips to Huawei.
The move would particularly embarass TSMC which acts as the foundry for Huawei’s chip design subsidiary HiSilicon.
Source: electronicsweekly
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