A new report from the Chinese Sina website revealed that TSMC has obtained a special license that will allow it to sell chips and processors to the Chinese company Huawei, and this matter is very important with the fact that TSMC was the one that manufactured previous generations of the company's processors, but was forced to terminate its contract and stop selling processors The Chinese company has been since mid-September as a result of tightening US sanctions on Huawei.
In general, the news is not completely positive. Although the company will be able to sell its processors to Huawei, the permission included a condition that these processors be "mature technologies" and not modern ones, as experts estimate that this will mean the use of processors with a 28nm architecture or I offer exclusively.
Of course, 28nm processors have become very old today, they have been outdated for many years with the trend towards increasingly accurate architectures recently and the fact that new processors will adopt only 5nm architecture. Therefore, this step may not be beneficial to the Chinese company Huawei, which is trying hard to bypass the harsh US sanctions imposed on it.
It is reported that Huawei had been placed on the US sanctions list since last year, but the initial sanctions did not have a real impact on the company, which prompted the US administration to tighten its sanctions recently and ban any companies that use US technologies from dealing with Huawei under the threat of banning these companies as well.
Currently, the future of Huawei phones appears to be largely unknown, and there are even rumors that the company may sell its Honor phone line to other companies as it will not be able to continue developing the brand's products in light of the current conditions of severe sanctions and boycott.
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