ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635326/huawei-arm-chip-designs-business-suspension

by ulfw • 7 years ago

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ulfw• 7 years ago

A British company owned by a Japanese company afraid of US repercussions.

Whatever one might think of the Huawei story - for people living outside the US, one starts to wonder if tech's over-reliance on Silicon Valley engineering has gone too far.

grezql• 7 years ago

ARM uses US tech to build their chips. If US stops supplying this tech to ARM that would hurt ARM. So I think they are doing the right thing here.

Besides, Huawei gets no sympathy from me. Too many years of stealing IP. Someone had to say no.

navigatesol• 7 years ago

Too many years of stealing IP.

So, wait: do we like intellectual property and patents stiffing innovation, or do we not? Only when it benefits us? I can never keep this straight.

TickleSteve• 7 years ago

ARM dont build chips... they build IP, i.e. designs.

Other companies implement and manufacture them.

Theodores2• 7 years ago

for people living outside the US, one starts to wonder if tech's over-reliance on Silicon Valley engineering has gone too far.

for people living inside the US, one starts to wonder if over-reliance on China has gone too far.

Also in the news today a report on tariffs (taxes) and the U.S. footwear business. Nike, ADIDAS and others are begging the Trump regime to call a halt to the trade war as normal people will not be able to afford shoes. Apparently 1.04% of shoes bought in the U.S.A. are made in the U.S.A. which is shocking, it is one thing to have lots of nuclear weapons for security but what use is this? Having a shoe industry is nearer my ideas on 'national security' - at least people can walk.

The shoe industry say that their business is capital intensive and they cannot just relocate back to sunny America in three months or so. Even if they wanted to setup shop n the U.S.A. they would not be able to hire the staff, get them trained and get them working in Trump timescales.

Which is the problem with this trade war. The U.S.A. isn't working to a grand plan, China are. China have goals for 2020/2025/2030/2040/2050 and stable leadership. Having the Trump regime just tear up trade deals and impose tariffs on a monthly basis is not how it works, there are better ways to regenerate economies than that, as evidenced by China.

Recently the Russians tested if they could survive their internet being disconnected from the American controlled internet. Everything worked fine. There are Russian apps for everything plus Yandex. They no longer need Silicon Valley. It is the same with China, they don't entirely need U.S. tech. Europe is slipping behind, there should be French/German/Italian/Spanish and other language/nationality based efforts. It is a bit lame and unambitious to use Google's services for everything.

NotPaidToPost5• 7 years ago

for people living inside the US, one starts to wonder if over-reliance on China has gone too far.

How come?

The current situation shows that the US hold massive power and benefit massively by selling high value items to China while taking advantage of cheap Chinese workers.

The US have and do benefit massively.

The real issue here is power. The US obviously want to hold on their global dominant position, but should realise that it's no more possible for them that it was for Britain.

NotPaidToPost5• 7 years ago

In 5 to 10 years ARM will not be selling anything to Chinese companies, which will have all moved to domestic and/or open designs.

That's the only possible end result.

theredbox• 7 years ago

So Chinese companies wont be selling anything to the rest of the world.

We already know that they are capable of building their own designs or software. The thing is NOBODY will ever use it outside of China.

The whole point of this situation is to force China to open more their market so we can at least pretend we have a fair trading environment.

NotPaidToPost5• 7 years ago

Of course they'll be selling plenty to the rest of the world.

It will be beneficial since it will give third countries a choice and help reduce their reliance on the US/monopolistic incumbents.

Trump's game really is to hurt China so that they don't become "number one on his watch" (his words). It's a good old power struggle behind the rhetoric of "fair trading environment".

contingencies• 7 years ago

I tend to agree but not sure it will be all or nothing. Grey and black market deals for components happen all the time, and nobody trades more heavily than China. Brings a whole new meaning to ARMs dealer.

dharma1• 7 years ago

I wonder if the outcome of all of this will be massive Chinese investment into RISC-V and linux

0815test• 7 years ago

That would be quite ironic indeed. But the Chinese seem to be more invested in MIPS, and even some homegrown x86-64 - so that's probably what we're going to see instead. One thing we should note is that Huawei doesn't really have a culture of openness, so this whole kerfuffle is a lot worse of a problem for them than it could be otherwise!

bubblewrap• 7 years ago

Rather than strengthening the position of US companies, I think this might weaken them in the long run. Who wants to depend on US products if they are liable to be taken away at a moment's notice?

luckylion2• 7 years ago

Pretty much every Western country will, because they depend on the US. If the empire goes, the provinces follow.

It's another thing for Russia, but they are already well aware. India? Probably still in a role where US-dependence does more good than harm. For Africa, it doesn't matter as much, and South America likely remembers that it's unwise to stray too far from the northern neighbor's wishes.

stareatgoats• 7 years ago

Your optimism regarding the future of the US empire is belied by long term trends, not only the phenomenal rise of the Chinese economy: The EU has since it's inception had its eyes set on greater independence from the US. Case in point, Macron and Merkel are calling for a European army now, but not because of Trump, it's been the plan all along.

Trumps current heavy-handedness in international relationships is instead a direct response to this disintegration of the empire, and it's just hastening the demise. The worrisome part is how the US (and all its hurrahh-boys) are signalling that they will not accept this turn of events peacefully.

gumby• 7 years ago

In the long run this kind of approach will simply spur development of Chinese alternative technologies and expertise. Until now such investment hasn’t been worth doing at serious levels.

ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs

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