It looks like Huawei is considering strengthening its chip design capabilities in-house. This information is from Digitimes and was provided by “industry sources”.
Huawei wants to build internal chip design capabilities to reduce dependence on others
The company is trying to further reduce its dependence on American technology by doing so. As most of you know, Huawei mainly uses its Kirin processors in its smartphones.
These chips are made by Huawei’s chip manufacturing arm called “ HiSilicon ”, and the two companies have strengthened their R&D teams, according to industry sources.
The sources also added that Huawei plans to work for self-sufficiency in the production of basic technologies. This indicates less dependence on American technology, for sure.
The company is trying to be more independent. Not only in terms of the technology itself, but also the manufacturing. The change could affect Taiwan’s current Huawei partners as they will feel pressure to maintain orders for Huawei this year.
The sources noted that Taiwanese-based peripheral integrated circuit suppliers, such as display driver integrated circuits, sensors, RFICs, and analog chips, should not have any problems. They should still be able to place orders from Huawei without a problem.
The company plans to announce wired and wireless connectivity integrated circuits developed in-house
The source also claims that Huawei plans to announce a wired and wireless connectivity integrated circuit developed in the second quarter of 2020. It was also noted that Huawei had developed its own processors, including AI chips, thanks to its R&D team . The company’s workforce has increased significantly over the past 10 years.
As most of you know by now, Huawei ended up on the U.S. ban list last year. The company has been accused of many things and it is therefore prohibited to work with American companies, with a few exceptions for existing products.
That being said, Huawei has not only lost Google’s partnership as a result, at least for the time being, but also many partners for its hardware. This also includes some basic technologies. The company managed to sort things out fairly quickly in the hardware department. However, things are more delicate when it comes to software.
In any case, the company has developed HMS to replace GMS and is also promoting AppGallery as a replacement for Play Store.
This software problem is a battle in progress. Meanwhile, Huawei is trying to boost its internal chip design capabilities to avoid such problems again. The company simply wants to be more independent.
It’s not hard to understand Huawei’s decision. He does not want to allow others to dictate his activities, because such a decision by the United States has managed to create a lot of problems for Huawei. It remains to be seen what will happen from this moment.