Stefan Mileschin

Intel, Qualcomm, Google, Microsoft

The four above are just the tip of the iceberg and probably the companies that will most suffer from the ban, but ISV like Adobe, antivirus makers, any US-based software maker on Android or Windows selling to Huawei will be affected too.

The ban was announced on Friday while last night the US Commerce Department temporarily lifted the ban for 90 days on American businesses working with Huawei. Someone in the administration realized that the whole tech market went red as most companies are doing business with gigantic Huawei.

Hard not to work with Huawei
Intel is selling both laptop chips as well as server chips to the company, Qualcomm is selling chips for various smartphones and has a licensing business with the company. Google is proving Android OS and apps, while Microsoft has different licensing and software deals with the company. Nvidia is selling chips for laptops and data center, these server and client devices need storage and memory too. The US list of hardware manufacturers crippled by Huawei ban just goes on.

It is hard to find fortune 500 who don’t deal with Huawei in China. It is just one large company that keeps growing, and Europe is massively affected.

The whole ban and trade wars and putting European players on thin ice too as some of the big European hardware players including Infineon are thinking to avoid doing business with Huawei. In the meantime, Huawei made a lot of penetration of the European carrier and handset market and established itself quite popular there.

If the US doesn’t change its mind and forbid Android and updates on Huawei phones, Huawei has the capacity to make a decent OS from the AOSP open source version and probably provide the third party maps.

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