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Not entirely true either, as the ban only applies to the US and ARM is a British company, with a Japanese parent company, so there's no conflict. They just can'
by qmarchi 7y ago
Not entirely true either, as the ban only applies to the US and ARM is a British company, with a Japanese parent company, so there's no conflict. They just can't use Qualcomm chips.
As for Fabs, they can't still use TSMC, Samsung, and the numerous smaller companies in mainland China.
- Palptine 7y agoArm has said that they are not gonna work with Huawei. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48363772 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48363772
- simonh 7y agoSome of the tech in ARM chips is licensed from US companies, mostly in the from of patents. Plus ARM has thousands of engineers working in the US, so some of their own tech in their CPUs will be covered by the ban as well.
- djsumdog 7y agoWait, why not Samsung? They're still based entirely out of South Korea, right?
- nickpsecurity 7y agoThere's quite a few outside of China per this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
- dogma1138 7y agoThat's not how US sanctions work, if you want to deal with the US in any way you have to comply with their sanctions, this is why US sanctions on Iran even unilateral ones are effective.