export controls, analysts said.īecause Chinese firms no longer have access to the most cutting-edge machines for making semiconductors, they have developed novel workarounds that use older machinery to create more powerful chips. Huawei’s development of the phone does not necessarily demonstrate a huge leap forward for Chinese technological prowess - or the total failure of U.S. officials, was targeted this year by Chinese hackers - told reporters that she had taken a hard line on the technology controls in her meetings, saying the United States was not willing to remove restrictions or compromise on issues of national security. Raimondo - whose email, along with other U.S. Chinese officials had asked for the United States to roll back its restrictions on chip exports. The phone was released during a week when both American and Chinese officials had issued numerous statements about renewed cooperation and communication. “Regardless of Huawei’s intentions, the launch of the Mate 60 Pro has been imbued by many Chinese netizens with a deeper meaning of ‘rising up under US pressure,’” the state-run Global Times said in an editorial. restrictions could not hold China back from developing its own technology. The Commerce Department also did not respond to a request for comment.Ĭhinese social media commentators and news sites celebrated the smartphone’s release as evidence that U.S. Huawei and SMIC did not respond to a request for comment. has allowed SMIC continued significant access to American technology.” “The official line in China of a heroic breaking of the technology blockade of the American imperialists is incorrect,” Mr. Though detailed information about the phone is limited, Huawei’s jade-green Mate 60 Pro appears to have many of the same basic capabilities as other smartphones on the market.Īn examination of the phone by TechInsights, a Canadian firm that analyzes the semiconductor industry, concluded that the advanced chip inside was manufactured by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation of China and was operating beyond the technology limits that the United States has been trying to enforce.ĭouglas Fuller, an associate professor at Copenhagen Business School, said SMIC appeared to have used equipment stockpiled before restrictions went into effect, equipment licensed to it for the purpose of producing chips for companies other than Huawei, and spare parts acquired through third-party vendors to cobble together its production. But Huawei appears to have found a way around those restrictions to make an advanced phone, at least in limited quantities. trade restrictions.īeginning in the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, the United States has steadily ramped up its restrictions on selling advanced chips and the machinery needed to make them to China, and to Huawei in particular, in an attempt to shut down China’s mastery of technologies that could aid its military.įor the past several years, those restrictions have curtailed Huawei’s ability to produce 5G phones. analysts said the achievement still most likely hinged on the use of American technology and machinery, which would have been in violation of U.S. Raimondo holding the new phone, next to phrases like “I am Raimondo, this time I endorse Huawei” and “Huawei mobile phone ambassador Raimondo.”Ĭhinese media have referred to the phone as a sign of the country’s technological independence, but U.S. curbs - was reflected online, where more than a dozen vendors cropped up on Chinese e-commerce sites to sell phone cases for the new model with Ms. Raimondo’s powerful role - as well as China’s antipathy toward the U.S. crackdown to Chinese officials, who pressed her to water down some of the rules. Raimondo, spent much of her trip defending the U.S. efforts to curb Beijing’s ability to gain access to advanced chips, and the commerce secretary, Gina M. The Commerce Department has been leading U.S. The timing of its release may not have been a coincidence. The new phone is powered by a chip that appears to be the most advanced version of China’s homegrown technology to date - a kind of achievement that the United States has been trying to prevent China from reaching. trade restrictions, unveiled a smartphone that illustrated just how hard it has been for the United States to clamp down on China’s tech prowess. commerce secretary’s good will tour to China last week, Huawei, the telecom giant that faces stiff U.S.
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