“The Wall Street Journal said it had obtained a Qualcomm presentation lobbying the U.S. government to remove restrictions and let it sell Snapdragon processors to Huawei,” reports Engadget: The ban won’t prevent Huawei from obtaining necessary parts and could just drive “billions of dollars” of U.S. sales to foreign chip makers like MediaTek and Samsung, Qualcomm reportedly said — lifting the chip ban would theoretically help American companies stay competitive. There could be a “rapid shift in 5G chipset market share” if Qualcomm is restricted while its foreign rivals aren’t, Qualcomm said.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/08/09/2114231/wsj-qualcomm-asks-us-government-to-let-it-sell-chips-to-huawei?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed