You do know what did SK Hynix said?
Most likely these chips are in Huawei hand because they buy them by-proxies.
Links or it didn't happen. And if it is true, why is Huawei not using one of their chips ?
Yes, sanctioning SK Hynix would mean the entire South Korean government toppled and become Pro-China. Right................
Asking Chinese member here to show proof is harder to bring my cat to the vet........
I am sure Hynix didn't bust the sanctions, and Huawei either used old stockpiles or bought them through proxy, as you said.
If you start a potato chip business, wouldn't you know who is the ultimate user?
SK Hynix Isn't Sure How Its Chips Got in Huawei's New Phone
The Huawei Mate 60 Pro is a mysterious phone that should not exist.www.extremetech.com
It's been a few years since Huawei released a phone worthy of notice stateside, but the new Mate 60 Pro has raised eyebrows on both sides of the Pacific. It's not a particularly innovative phone, but it contains chips that shouldn't exist. In addition to the mysterious Kirin 9000s processor, teardowns have revealed what appear to be SK Hynix memory and NAND flash. This would be a significant violation of US trade sanctions, but the South Korean firm says it's looking into how Huawei got the chips.
Huawei was vague about many aspects of the Mate 60 Pro's hardware, but Chinese consumers have been poking around inside the phone since it launched. Multiple teardowns show at least two chips from SK Hynix inside, a 176-layer 4D NAND chip (UD310) and 512Gb LPDDR5 modules bearing model number HN8T25DEHKX077. It has at least moved on from releasing the same phone multiple times.
As far as anyone can tell, these are authentic SK Hynix parts, but the company professes its innocence, saying that it adheres to the US sanctions. Because SK Hynix relies on US technology to manufacture chips, it has no choice but to comply. Some have speculated that Huawei stockpiled SK Hynix components when it still had limited access to US markets in 2020 (that's when the U310 was released). But if that's the case, Huawei would be severely limited in the number of Mate 60 Pro phones it could produce.
Umnn, probably not, unless I was selling chips to only a handful of people, in which case the business would be a failure.If you start a potato chip business, wouldn't you know who is the ultimate user?
These chips do have multiple users , though not as many as potato chips. So, you can mislead the supplier once but not for very long.
Yes, that's the most probable explanation. And I am leaning on the latter than the former because as many commentators pointed out, if they get them before US sanction start in 2020, they are going to only have a small amount of chips for this. So, the question would be, would you anchor your flagship phone with these left-over chips set?
the problem is the commonality of these chip, every, I mean, EVERY phone runs on these chip, which mean you could have bought a lot in small batches from different outlet and nobody would be wiser before your game is up. It's like drug dealer buying pre-cursor chemical and make drug, if you buy one big batch, people are all going to look at how you use it or where it ends up, but if you put it in small interval, buying maybe 1000 more (just an arbitrary number denoting small amount) on top of the normal order, nobody are going to bat an eyelash overIf you start a potato chip business, wouldn't you know who is the ultimate user?
In the cooperate world, we know, way before we make it, who is the customer. I was working on a project, and my team leader lied about the end user to the team. I just searched the terms we were using in the project, and I came to know that only one company is working on these specs, and in the end, it turned out to be true. So even if the user lies about the end user, he simply can't hide it.
There are two scenarios:
That is the point, You are selling chips to a handful of people. I mean these chips are not general-purpose AND-gate ICs.
