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Huawei's vulnerability to US microchip ban

15 points by mhandley 7y ago

echopom 7y ago
>Huawei's microchip vulnerability explained This article does not explain a single thing about why those chips are vulnerable. It just enumerate some of the components within it. Those clikbait titles for ad-revenue are becoming a real issue...
- makomk 7y ago
  It's not the chips that are vulnerable - it's Huawei's business that's vulnerable to the US blocking them from obtaining those crucial chips.
  - mhandley 7y ago
    I've modified the original title to hopefully make this clearer
    - some_random 7y ago
      If only you could modify the title on BBC's end.
- dazc 7y ago
  'This article does not explain a single thing about why those chips are vulnerable.' The BBC have a talent of explaining complicated things in a way that actually explains nothing at all.
  - hsk823 7y ago
    We're stuck in the mindset that vulnerability means a technical vulnerability, they're discussing how Huawei is vulnerable due to trade restrictions, not due to technical challenges.
supergirl 7y ago
clickbait/propaganda title. there is no vulnerability in the security sense. i guess they mean an economic vulnerability, because the chip is made up of parts made by american companies. however they don't even conclude this. they actually make a point that the american companies' revenues will suffer.
mhkool 7y ago
Huawei will suffer a little bit in the short term and most likely come back stronger since they have the home market and resources to develop a new and better phone with non-USA parts. This trade&tech war is just beginning and is pushed by the USA to do everything without parts/commodities from the USA. So that is exactly what China will do. It will take some time, but China has plenty of resources and - will buy soy from Russia and stop buying it from the USA - stop buying tech from the USA and make it themselves. Not well thought through by Trump and his advisors.
- makomk 7y ago
  More like bad reporting by the US media. Russia can't supply even a fraction of the soy required to fill the gap left by China not buying it from the US, they simply don't grow enough. The headlines gave you a different idea because that helped feed a narrative about Trump and Russia. (In reality, China growing their own soy did more to fill that gap, but that wasn't close to enough either.) China has been trying to push for local microchip manufacturing for years. Where they haven't succeeded it's not for lack of resources put into trying.
  - mhkool 7y ago
    That is right. Russia can today not supply China with sufficient soy. But Russia has enough soil to change that and since the political will from China and Russia exists, this most likely will happen.
kuu 7y ago
I think the title is a bit confusing, I'd say pure clickbait. Anyway, interesting topic, let's see how this ends...
curiousgal 7y ago
I so very hope the Chinese government retaliates with a similar ban, it'll be fun watching Apple stock plumet. This trade war is getting out of hand.
some_random 7y ago
Is this clickbait? It feels like clickbait, I looked at the title and assumed there was a _vulnerability_ in Huawei _Microchips_ that I had somehow missed. Instead, it's about _Huawei's_ vulnerability to their _Microchip supply chain_. The usage of the word "vulnerability" in this context couldn't have been an accident, the author and/or editor had to have phrased the title this way on purpose.

15 points by mhandley 7y ago

>Huawei's microchip vulnerability explained This article does not explain a single thing about why those chips are vulnerable. It just enumerate some of the components within it. Those clikbait titles for ad-revenue are becoming a real issue...

makomk 7y ago
It's not the chips that are vulnerable - it's Huawei's business that's vulnerable to the US blocking them from obtaining those crucial chips.
- mhandley 7y ago
  I've modified the original title to hopefully make this clearer
  - some_random 7y ago
    If only you could modify the title on BBC's end.
dazc 7y ago
'This article does not explain a single thing about why those chips are vulnerable.' The BBC have a talent of explaining complicated things in a way that actually explains nothing at all.
- hsk823 7y ago
  We're stuck in the mindset that vulnerability means a technical vulnerability, they're discussing how Huawei is vulnerable due to trade restrictions, not due to technical challenges.

supergirl 7y ago

clickbait/propaganda title. there is no vulnerability in the security sense. i guess they mean an economic vulnerability, because the chip is made up of parts made by american companies. however they don't even conclude this. they actually make a point that the american companies' revenues will suffer.

mhkool 7y ago

Huawei will suffer a little bit in the short term and most likely come back stronger since they have the home market and resources to develop a new and better phone with non-USA parts. This trade&tech war is just beginning and is pushed by the USA to do everything without parts/commodities from the USA. So that is exactly what China will do. It will take some time, but China has plenty of resources and - will buy soy from Russia and stop buying it from the USA - stop buying tech from the USA and make it themselves. Not well thought through by Trump and his advisors.

makomk 7y ago
More like bad reporting by the US media. Russia can't supply even a fraction of the soy required to fill the gap left by China not buying it from the US, they simply don't grow enough. The headlines gave you a different idea because that helped feed a narrative about Trump and Russia. (In reality, China growing their own soy did more to fill that gap, but that wasn't close to enough either.) China has been trying to push for local microchip manufacturing for years. Where they haven't succeeded it's not for lack of resources put into trying.
- mhkool 7y ago
  That is right. Russia can today not supply China with sufficient soy. But Russia has enough soil to change that and since the political will from China and Russia exists, this most likely will happen.

kuu 7y ago

I think the title is a bit confusing, I'd say pure clickbait. Anyway, interesting topic, let's see how this ends...

curiousgal 7y ago

I so very hope the Chinese government retaliates with a similar ban, it'll be fun watching Apple stock plumet. This trade war is getting out of hand.

some_random 7y ago

Is this clickbait? It feels like clickbait, I looked at the title and assumed there was a _vulnerability_ in Huawei _Microchips_ that I had somehow missed. Instead, it's about _Huawei's_ vulnerability to their _Microchip supply chain_. The usage of the word "vulnerability" in this context couldn't have been an accident, the author and/or editor had to have phrased the title this way on purpose.