ARM LATEST FIRM TO HALT BUSINESS WITH HUAWEI; INTEL MUM

摘要

The BBC reported that an internal document instructed ARM employees to stop "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei, following an American ban. ARM, a British company, is owned by Softbank, a Japanese fund. On 16 May, the US imposed a ban on Huawei and 68 of its affiliates, preventing the company from importing components from American companies without government approval. Some of the affiliates are in other countries like Canada, Japan, Brazil, the UK, Singapore and others. Processor firm Intel told CommsWire it had no comment at the moment about its position on the Huawei ban. Intel was reported to have told its employees on Monday that it would not supply Huawei until further notice. The internal ARM document said its designs contained technology which originated in the US, the BBC said. On Monday, Google announced it was cutting off Huawei's access to future updates of Google's Android and Google Play Store. Huawei uses Android in its smartphones. Some parts of Android, like the kernel, which is a modified version of Linux, are under open-source licences.