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US blocks chip sales to Huawei

May 15, 2020

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This would include any IC designed by US EDA or fabbed on US-made manufacturing equipment.

Huawei has continued to use US EDA to design circuits says the DoC, despite being placed on a US economic blacklist in May 2019.

The intention is to “prevent US technologies from enabling malign activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests,” says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, adding that Huawei and its affiliates have “stepped-up efforts to undermine these national security-based restrictions.”

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