Huawei Warns Trump: 'If You Want To Stop Us, You Need To Try Harder'
The impact of the U.S. blacklisting is less than feared, and Huawei is fully prepared to deal with the restrictions for a long time to come. That was the message given to reporters at an event at the company's HQ in Shenzhen on Friday [August 23]. Although, of course, the real audience was not the assembled media but the Trump administration—thousands of miles away in Washington—as the battle of wills continues.
The statements were made at a launch event for the company's new Ascend 910 AI chip—intended to rival the likes of Qualcomm and Nvidia. "The Ascend 910 has more computing power than any other AI processor in the world," the company said in a statement. And the backdrop is, of course, Huawei's ongoing program to break its reliance on U.S. tech that is restricted under its blacklisting.
A further 90-day reprieve was formalised by the Commerce Department this week, but all signs (currently) point to a full lockdown in November, and an additional 46 Huawei "affiliates" have been added to the entity list this week, making the existing restrictions harder to deal with. The extension provides Huawei with three further months of (some level of) supply chain surety—time enough to launch its next smartphones and to continue development of its "Plan B."
"We’re giving [customers] a little more time to wean themselves off [Huawei]," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross explained. "But no specific licenses are being granted for anything." Adding later that "as we continue to urge consumers to transition away from Huawei’s products, we recognize that more time is necessary to prevent any disruption."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/23/huawei-to-trump-if-you-want-to-stop-us-you-need-to-work-much-harder-than-this/
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