Chip designer Arm will continue to supply Huawei after the company’s legal team ruled that its chip technology is of UK origin and would not breach US restrictions on supplying the Chinese company, Reuters reports.
Huawei uses Aem designs for its own processors to power smartphones. In May, Arm halted relations with Huawei after the US blocked American companies from doing business with Huawei due to security concerns. While Huawei was granted a reprieve until November, it remains set to lose access to some suppliers from next month.
An Arm spokesperson told Reuters that its v8 and v9 technology are UK-origin technologies. As such Arm can provide support to Huawei's HiSilicon for the Arm v8-A architecture, as well as the next generation of that architecture. This follows "a comprehensive review of both architectures, which have been determined to be of UK origin", he said.
