Washington cut off Huawei’s access to U.S. components and technology including Google’s music and other smartphone services last year. Those penalties were tightened in May when the White House barred vendors worldwide from using U.S. technology to produce components for Huawei. Production will close on Sept. 15,” Yu said. “This year may be the last generation of Huawei Kirin high-end chips.”More broadly, Huawei’s smartphone production has “no chips and no supply,” Yu said. Article Continued BelowYu said this year’s smartphone sales probably will be lower than 2019’s level of 240 million handsets but gave no details.

Source: thestar August 08, 2020 16:55 UTC