How Huawei plans to work around the U.S. chip ban

In 2020, the U.S. made a change to an export rule to prevent foundries that use U.S. technology to manufacture chips from shipping cutting-edge semiconductors to Huawei. At the time, Huawei was the second largest customer of TSMC, the world’s leading foundry, behind only Apple . This, and the restrictions placed on Huawei by the U.S. the previous year, helped to make life extremely difficult for the Chinese manufacturer considered a security threat in the U.S. To say that Huawei just rolled over and played dead would be incorrect. Actually, the company found the fortitude to dig deep within and…