Huawei Chairman ``I want to continue buying US products'' hopes for permission to sell Qualcomm chips

"We hope that the US government will reconsider its policy (against Huawei). If the US government allows it, we will continue to purchase products from American companies." ”

Mr. Guo Ping, the rotating chairman of Huawei Technologies (Huawei), China's largest telecommunications equipment company, spoke to the media at the venue of the large-scale event "Huawei Connect 2020" held by the company in Shanghai on September 23. He said so in an interview. It's the first time a company executive has made public comments since the US government's sanctions against Huawei began suspending shipments of semiconductors on September 15.

According to Guo, Huawei has almost enough inventory of parts for its enterprise business, including mobile base stations, so it can continue to serve customers. But the consumer smartphone business requires a huge amount of semiconductors, so it is still trying hard to find a way to keep the business going.

According to Huawei's 2019 annual report, sales of its consumer products division, which is dominated by smartphones, accounted for 467.3 billion yuan (about 7.1964 trillion yen), accounting for 54% of total sales. If the smartphone business cannot continue, the impact on management will be immeasurable.

Semiconductors in South Korea and Japan cannot be sold without permission

Due to the tightening of sanctions announced by the US government on May 15, semiconductor contract manufacturing companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Foundries have been forced to stop accepting new orders for Huawei-designed chips. Furthermore, on August 17, the U.S. government expanded the scope of the regulation to cover all semiconductors designed and manufactured using American-origin technology. We were forced to suspend shipments to

In such a difficult situation, Huawei is putting a small hope that the US government will issue sales licenses to domestic manufacturers. According to Huawei, Qualcomm, the world's largest manufacturer of SoCs for smartphones, has already obtained approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce. said to have applied.

"Qualcomm has always been an important partner of Huawei. If we can get permission from the US government, we will be happy to produce smartphones with Qualcomm chips."

This article is an article provided by "Caishin"

, but it must be said that it is unclear whether the application will be accepted. After the U.S. government added Huawei to the Entity List in May 2019. , Several US companies were allowed to sell to Huawei, but in technologically mature fields such as personal computers and servers. State-of-the-art semiconductors like Qualcomm's 5G SoCs are consistently not licensed by the US government.

(Caixin Reporter: Zhang Jishu) *The original will be delivered on September 23rd

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