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America’s strictest restrictions on Huawei will take effect on September 15, and corporations around the world are forced to make decisions. We have already noticed that the world’s largest foundry, TSMC, says it would no longer do business with Huawei, even though Huawei was crowned. the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer in the last quarter. The next corporations to leave are Samsung, LG and SK Hynix, according to two reports from the Korean online page Chosun Ilbo.
Chosun Ilbo says Huawei is the third largest semiconductor customer in the world and that the company accounts for 6% of Samsung Electronics semiconductor sales and 15% of SK Hynix sales. However, Huawei says the ban has been coming for a long time, and the report says the company has “a two-year inventory. “
Report No. 2 indicates that Samsung Display and LG Display have suspended sales to Huawei. Samsung manufactures the most productive OLED displays for smartphones, and whatever the call on the outside of a phone, most flagship smartphones use Samsung screens. Many tactics to eliminate the demo market, but the maximum applicable is the OLED smartphone market, where, according to Pulse figures for the fourth quarter of 2019, Samsung had a market percentage of 81. 2% and LG a percentage of 10. 8%.
Huawei’s most productive bet for displays is the Chinese corporate BOE, which ranked third on the list, with a market share of 1. 6%. Huawei uses BOE displays on some devices, adding as a supplier for the Huawei Mate X, although flagship products like the P40 Pro still use a demo from Samsung. BOE is the world’s largest demo maker, but it hasn’t really established itself in the OLED smartphone market.
An inventory of select Chinese chips and suppliers would possibly allow Huawei to continue a little longer, however, the immediate challenge of the company is the software, where it has been prevented from Google Play Store and Android apps. Tomorrow, Huawei deserves to show the progress of its Android rival “Harmony OS”, which was announced last year. It is probably not yet in a position to fight Android, but in the long run, the company expects the assignment to succeed where Tizen, Windows Phone, Blackberry 10, Sailfish OS, Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, Symbian, MeeGo and WebOS have failed.
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