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Samsung reacts to chip supply rumors for Huawei Mate 60 Pro
Samsung denied the rumors of supplying chips to Huawei for the new Mate 60 Pro smartphone. The company disclosed that it never traded with Huawei after the 2020 US sanctions. Notably, it was reported that some of Samsung’s chips are used in Huawei phones.
Huawei managed to use memory chips made by Samsung, Kioxia and even Micron as well as SK hynix despite U.S. sanctions on the Chinese tech company in 2020. With SK hynix’s 512GB NAND flagship chips found in a teardown of Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro, questions on the efficacy of memory chip sanctions were raised.
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“Samsung has been abiding by export regulations set forth by the U.S. government and does not hold business relationships outlined within the guardrails,” a spokesperson at Samsung Electronics said.
The Chinese company has deployed DRAM chips from Samsung and Micron and NAND Flash chips by Kioxia over the past three years. This is to say that China had either accumulated enough supply to last these years or found a hidden channel to keep bringing in foreign-made semiconductors.
Back in November 2021, Samsung managed to produce 14-nanometer LPDDR5X mobile DRAM chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. As per report, esearchers from Tsinghua University have begun developing its own microchip production method dubbed steady-state microbunching (SSMB).