Intel and Qualcomm reportedly join Google in Huawei's ban

Huawei's bad weekend is getting worse as its US suppliers all comply with a US government decree forbidding them to deal with the company. Bloomberg now reports that Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom, three of the world's leading chip designers and suppliers, are immediately ending their relationship with Huawei. This follows the previous announcement that Google was abruptly canceling Huawei's Android license and terminating its access to Google Play and Play Store services, draining it from the Android smartphone market and forcing the Chinese company to develop its own version on barebone open source system. edition of Android.

According to Bloomberg sources, employees of leading US chip makers have been told that their companies will freeze their supply contracts with Huawei until further notice. Intel is supplying Huawei with server chips and processors in its notebook lineup, while Qualcomm is lagging behind in providing modems and other processors. Huawei is actually quite isolated from the Qualcomm impact because it builds its own processors and mobile modems. Another Bloomberg report states that Huawei has also prepared for this event by storing chips from US suppliers for at least three months, which should leave enough time to say whether the current measure is an alarmist tactic or a permanent imposition from the US government.

Huawei has also developed internal alternatives to Android and Windows, specifically to try to remedy a situation such as this one. Microsoft has not yet announced whether it would continue to provide the Windows operating system for Huawei laptops, but there is a good chance that it also respects the orders of the US government.

The US government has been striving for a long time to put Huawei away from the group. Last year, the company relentlessly pushed back its efforts to penetrate the US phone market. The current escalation is part of an increasingly hostile trade dispute between the Trump administration and the Chinese government, the first attempting to force a renegotiation of the trade relationship between the two.