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With U.S.-China ties at their worst in decades,
Washington has been pushing governments around to world to
squeeze out Huawei, arguing that the telecoms giant would hand
data to the Chinese government for espionage.
From September 15, new curbs have barred U.S. companies from
supplying or servicing Huawei.
This week the state-backed China Securities Journal said Intel
had received permission to supply Huawei.
Last week China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International
Corporation <0981.HK> confirmed it had also sought permission to
continue servicing Huawei. SMIC uses U.S.-origin equipment to
make chips for Huawei and other companies.
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix <000660.KS> also applied for
U.S. licence for Huawei sales, but it has not gained approval, a
person familiar with the matter said.
The person, declining to be identified as they were not
authorised to speak to media, said non-U.S. firms may not have a
high chance of getting U.S. approval, and chipmakers are
drafting contingency plans to increase supplies to other
customers.
SK Hynix declined to comment.
In August, Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek Inc <2454.TW>
disclosed it had applied to the U.S. government for permission
to continue supplying China's Huawei.
Huawei, founded in 1987 by a former engineer in China's People's
Liberation Army, denies it spies for Beijing and says the United
States is trying to smear it because Western firms are falling
behind in 5G technology.
In what some observers have compared to the Cold War arms race,
the United States worries that 5G dominance would give China an
advantage Washington is not ready to accept.
(Reporting by Josh Horwitz; Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin
in Seoul; editing by Clarence Fernandez and Jason Neely)
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