Since May 2019, Huawei HiSilicon has been sanctioned by the United States one after another, and the sanctioned HiSilicon cannot use the "mother of chips" EDA chip design software of the United States, and chip manufacturers (TSMC, SMIC, Samsung, etc.) that use the AMERICAN EDA chip design software cannot manufacture chips for HiSilicon.
Huawei HiSilicon cannot design software with American EDA chips
HiSilicon, who was initially sanctioned, can still rely on inventory chips to support, feeling that the impact is not large, but with the passage of time, HiSilicon was slowly affected by the eagle sauce sanctions; because HiSilicon can't use the EDA chip design software of the United States, hiSilicon released the Kirin 9000 chip In the past two years, it has not been able to design a more advanced chip than the Kirin 9000; last year, the shipment of HiSilicon chips was directly cut off, and there were 96.2 million chip shipments in 2020. In 2021, only 30.2 million chips were shipped.
Compared with the shipments of HiSilicon chips in 2021 and 2020, they were directly cut off
Since Huawei's mobile phones are gradually out of hysilicon chips available, Huawei can only compromise to use the American Qualcomm chip, just when everyone thought that HiSilicon would completely burp in 2022, did not expect it to be tenaciously alive.
Without HiSilicon chips, Huawei mobile phones face the problem of no core available.
According to the statistics of CINNO Research, a world-renowned market research agency, in the first quarter of 2022, the shipment of smartphone SoC in the Chinese mainland market was about 74.39 million, of which Huawei's HiSilicon chip shipments were 2.5 million, although it only reached one-sixth of the same period in 2021, but the shipment of HiSilicon chips still occupied a place in the Chinese mainland smartphone processor market, ranking fourth.
In the first quarter of 2022, HiSilicon chip shipments ranked fourth in the Chinese mainland smartphone processor market
It has to be said that under the adverse economic conditions, geopolitical problems and the impact of the epidemic, Huawei HiSilicon's chip shipments can also rank fourth in the Chinese mainland smart phone processor market, in addition to the factor that the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, the spirit of HiSilicon is more and more courageous, dare to fight and dare to fight is still commendable.