On May 7, the Financial Times and Reuters and other foreign media quoted news that the Biden administration further tightened export restrictions on Huawei on the same day, revoking the licenses of American chip companies Qualcomm and Intel to sell semiconductors to Huawei.
This is the latest move by the U.S. government against Huawei, which aims to affect the supply of chips for Huawei's laptops and tablets. Previously, the United States has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Huawei. Plus this time it's the fifth round.
On May 15, 2024, Huawei's summer all-scenario new product launch conference was held. At the press conference, Huawei launched more than a dozen new products such as the MatePad 11.5"S, a tablet product. In the past 2 days, Huawei's tablet sales have exceeded 500,000 units, which is enough to see consumers' love for this product.
There is a picture and a truth:
This statistic does not count the sales on the evening, in order to listen to it and not discriminate, I went to search for it, and found that there are many merchants selling this Huawei notebook on it. There are also those that have sold more than 10,000.
For the first time, the U.S. chip ban on Huawei began in May 2019, prohibiting Huawei from using U.S. EDA software and Google's GMS framework services, and Qualcomm, Intel and other U.S. suppliers stopped supplying Huawei.
In addition, the U.S. has banned Huawei equipment and demanded the removal of equipment in use at home, which has had a great impact on Huawei and the U.S. people, and has a huge cost. Although the achievements and future development prospects of Chinese enterprises in the field of communication technology are still worth looking forward to, there are big problems with the US side's approach to this issue. Politics cannot replace technology, and giving up the technology of Chinese enterprises is a loss for themselves.
At that time, the intention of the United States was obvious, which was to beat Huawei to death with a stick.
But just five years after the first sanctions, in May 2024, Huawei has grown to be fearless.
If the 2019 US sanctions set off a storm, the sanctions on May 7, 2024 are like no such thing, and they have not even made the headlines.
Why?
Everyone knows in their hearts that the United States' control over chips may collapse at any time.
News on May 9, according to the latest report of the American Semiconductor Association, with the promotion of the US "Chips Act", it is expected that by 2032, the share of the United States in the global manufacturing of advanced process chips below 10nm will reach 28%, while the proportion of Chinese mainland may only be 3%. The United States is 9 times that of Chinese mainland.
The United States believes that China's advanced chips can only account for 3%, which is too ignorant of China.
What China is best at is large-scale production, as long as China can produce, it will definitely soon dry up the output to the first place in the world, how can it stop at 3%?
Huawei mobile phones are out one by one, and they are popular one by one, and the chip supply is not said to be unable to keep up. And the chips used by Huawei are said to be 7 nanometers and 5 nanometers, in short, they are all lower than 10 nanometers, don't you see it in the American Semiconductor Association?
Or is it that the United States is becoming more and more like an ostrich, playing some tricks of self-deception?
This time, Huawei's tablet sold well, once again proving to the world a truth, all reactionaries are paper tigers.
The United States does not understand, the toughness of the Chinese is like a spring, the more you press the higher the bullet.
Come on!