After the US Department of Commerce recently listed Huawei as a prohibited export target, manufacturers including Google, Qualm and Intel suspended their cooperation with Huawei. However, BBC TV in Britain obtained the contents of suspected internal documents of Arm, indicating that the company has instructed to stop all cooperation and technical support projects with Huawei, which will obviously have a greater impact on Huawei.
At present, Arm has been acquired by Softbank of Japan, and it still maintains independent operation and development, and is headquartered in the UK. However, because many IP technologies originate from the R&D Center in Texas, it is bound to constitute that Arm must cooperate with government decrees according to Google's position, otherwise it may have an impact on its own business.
According to the content obtained by BBC TV, Arm has asked its internal staff not to provide relevant technology and support to Huawei or Hisilicon, and at the same time, it is forbidden to discuss technical content with relevant enterprises of Huawei or Hisilicon.
Because Huawei's Hisilicon is authorized by Arm technology, even if Huawei continues to build new processor products with perpetual licensing technology purchased from Arm, it will still be limited by issues such as instruction set content update and new technology support in the future. Under such circumstances, Huawei will obviously face more problems. Judging from the coverage of the current Arm license, it will almost block the possibility of Huawei developing brand-new processor products in the future. Unless Huawei chooses to adopt architecture design other than Arm, it will take some time and cost to compete with other processor manufacturers.
However, earlier, Huawei emphasized that it can build its own processor products, at the same time, it also has the ability of operating system and software research and development, and also has sufficient network technology patent resources, so it still has confidence in the current situation, and also said that it has begun to develop other solutions.
Although the U.S. Department of Commerce said it would relax the 90-day period to allow Huawei products to obtain system updates during this period, it is obvious that products including technology are still not allowed to be exported to Huawei in the United States. Therefore, more and more manufacturers began to indicate that they would suspend contact with Huawei, and many telecom operators also indicated that they would temporarily stop or cancel the sales of Huawei's mobile phone products. For example, British telecom operator EE confirmed earlier that Huawei's 5G connected mobile phones will not be sold when the service of 5G network is opened recently, and Japanese telecom operators announced earlier that they would temporarily cancel the pre-order of Huawei's mobile phones. As for Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan Province Province, its chairman Xie Jimao confirmed earlier that the company will no longer sell Huawei's new machines.