TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies aims to restart manufacturing of cutting-edge mobile chips starting this year, even as the US and its allies further restrict China’s access to key tools and technology used to produce semiconductors.
A former smartphone powerhouse, Huawei is working with major Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) to put its in-house designed 5G mobile chipset into mass production in the coming months, two told Nikkei Asia. people with knowledge of the subject. Huawei has been unable to make next-generation mobile chips since Washington cut off the company’s access to key US technology and vital global suppliers in 2020.