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Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)

Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)

US government agency within the Department of Commerce

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Huawei rebuilds global smartphone ambitions on homegrown chips despite US export controls

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Administering and expanding export controls on Chinese semiconductor technology

In May 2019, the United States placed Huawei on an export blacklist, cutting the world's largest telecom equipment maker off from American chips, software, and chipmaking tools. Seven years later, Huawei launched its Mate 80 Pro smartphone globally from a stage in Madrid, powered entirely by a processor designed in-house and manufactured by China's largest chipmaker using equipment the US tried to deny it. The phone runs on HarmonyOS, an operating system Huawei built from scratch after losing access to Google's Android services.

Updated Feb 26