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Posted by S.Yu

- May 25, 2019, 21:05:16

Huawei seems pretty confident it gets to keep the ARMv8 license.

Posted by Deli

- May 25, 2019, 02:41:24

Wait... AMD is based in Taiwan? I thought AMD is a very US company.
or... do you mean TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)? TSMC indeed can supply Huawei chips since their chips use very little amount of "US designs"

Posted by Sam Medley

- May 24, 2019, 03:52:20

While RISC-V is open source, at least parts of it were developed in the United States. It would be interesting to see how that would play out; the US would surely attempt to use some kind of licensing to block it's use.
I doubt Huawei would go for RISC anyway. It's main use is research; it would still take a LONG time to develop a RISC-V based SoC.

Posted by A.

- May 23, 2019, 21:56:32

They could use the MIPS architecture, but this too is held by an American company. Maybe now is the good time for OpenRISC and, more importantly, RISC-V (although I highly doubt it).

Posted by Redaktion

- May 23, 2019, 17:17:23

ARM's recent announcement to cut ties with Huawei may leave the Chinese dragon in a lurch. While Huawei manufactures its own custom processors, they are built on ARM's architecture. Should ARM revoke Huawei's ability to use this architecture, Huawei has few options outside of developing its own CPU architecture to continue its electronics business.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/An-ARM-and-a-leg-What-ARM-s-latest-decision-may-cost-Huawei.421431.0.html