Qualcomm officially confirmed today that the Chinese giant Huawei won’t need its chips anymore.
In recent times, Huawei has been increasingly relying on domestically developed configurations in the Chinese market for its smartphones. A recent report confirmed that the latest Pura 70 series already includes a significant proportion of configurations provided by Chinese companies.
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor company that has supplied 4G chips to the Chinese giant despite many restrictions imposed by the US. However, Huawei has been gradually shifting towards using its configurations or domestically developed ones in the Chinese market.
Tensions between the US and China have escalated recently, and Qualcomm’s announcement comes in the wake of this tension, confirming that Huawei won’t need to use Qualcomm chips anymore.
These details were revealed by Qualcomm’s Chief Financial Officer, who indicated in the statements that Huawei won’t be placing requests for 4G chip supplies in the future.
The relationship between Qualcomm and Huawei has gone through several stages, starting with cooperation between the two companies, and then evolving into competition to produce processors and modem chips. With Huawei’s increasing investments in 5G technologies, the US government began imposing sanctions, leading to Huawei’s decline in markets. Subsequently, Huawei returned to using 4G chips from Qualcomm, and now it is preparing to once again become independent with configurations tailored for its devices.
