{"id":1471,"date":"2025-06-21T05:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1471\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T05:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:17:10","slug":"how-huaweis-silicon-strategy-defies-us-sanctions-to-advance-chinas-ai-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1471\/","title":{"rendered":"How Huawei\u2019s silicon strategy defies US sanctions to advance China\u2019s AI ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei\u2019s advanced AI chip initiative, however, suddenly faced a major obstacle a year later in August 2020, when the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3097734\/us-further-tightens-restrictions-huaweis-access-chips?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">US Commerce Department tightened restrictions<\/a> by barring the sale of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/semiconductors?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">semiconductor<\/a> products and services \u2013 sourced from anywhere with US technology \u2013 to the company and its affiliates without a requisite licence.As a result, Huawei supplier <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-company-tsmc?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest and most advanced contract chipmaker, ceased doing business with the Chinese firm and its integrated circuit (IC) design unit <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/hisilicon?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">HiSilicon<\/a> to comply with US curbs.Fast-forward to 2025, and Huawei has remained resilient in the face of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-sanctions-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">US sanctions<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Huawei Technologies\u2019 Ascend 910 processor. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/783464b2-7c5c-4a8d-bacd-165fa2c323f2_8f53a9eb.jpg\" title=\"Huawei Technologies\u2019 Ascend 910 processor. Photo: Handout\"\/>Huawei Technologies\u2019 Ascend 910 processor. Photo: Handout<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/jensen-huang?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Jensen Huang<\/a>, founder and CEO of AI chip giant <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/nvidia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia<\/a>, has been the most prominent industry leader to recognise the resurgence of Huawei in the IC sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huawei\u2019s advanced AI chip initiative, however, suddenly faced a major obstacle a year later in August 2020, when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1991,1989,1993,1975,229,691,1984,1997,2017,738,1957,2008,2005,2002,1994,74,2009,1970,1971,1964,1979,1983,2013,1999,2018,2014,1963,1978,1967,1966,1961,2012,1995,2006,1992,1962,1986,2010,1998,1982,1976,1980,1990,1987,1974,1671,1981,2000,1973,2011,1977,1959,1988,2001,2016,1972,1956,2015,2004,1969,1968,2003,1965,1960,158,1996,1955,67,132,68,1958,1985,2007],"class_list":{"0":"post-1471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-5g","9":"tag-7-nanometre-chip","10":"tag-910b","11":"tag-910c","12":"tag-advanced-micro-devices","13":"tag-ai","14":"tag-ai-diffusion-rule","15":"tag-alex-yao","16":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","17":"tag-artificial-intelligence","18":"tag-ascend-910","19":"tag-ascend-chips","20":"tag-bureau-of-industry-and-security","21":"tag-cadence-design-systems","22":"tag-cambricon-technologies","23":"tag-china","24":"tag-cloudmatrix","25":"tag-cloudmatrix-384","26":"tag-cloudmatrix-infer","27":"tag-computex-expo","28":"tag-data-centres","29":"tag-david-sacks","30":"tag-deepseek","31":"tag-electronic-design-automation","32":"tag-empyrean-technology","33":"tag-eric-xu-zhijun","34":"tag-eurasia-group","35":"tag-gb200-nvl72-rack-scale-system","36":"tag-graphics-processing-unit","37":"tag-h20","38":"tag-hisilicon","39":"tag-huawei","40":"tag-hygon-information-technology","41":"tag-icwise","42":"tag-iflytek","43":"tag-integrated-circuit","44":"tag-jeffrey-kessler","45":"tag-jensen-huang","46":"tag-jpmorgan","47":"tag-kevin-xu","48":"tag-kunpeng","49":"tag-large-language-model","50":"tag-mate-60-pro","51":"tag-mizuho-securities","52":"tag-neural-processing-units","53":"tag-nvidia","54":"tag-peoples-daily","55":"tag-primarius-technologies","56":"tag-r1","57":"tag-ren-zhengfei","58":"tag-semianalysis","59":"tag-semiconductor","60":"tag-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corp","61":"tag-semitronix","62":"tag-sensetime","63":"tag-sglang","64":"tag-shenzhen","65":"tag-sicarrier","66":"tag-siemens-eda","67":"tag-siliconflow","68":"tag-start-up","69":"tag-synopsys","70":"tag-taipei","71":"tag-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-co","72":"tag-technology","73":"tag-tencent-holdings","74":"tag-trade-blacklist","75":"tag-united-states","76":"tag-unitedstates","77":"tag-us","78":"tag-us-commerce-department","79":"tag-vivatech-conference-in-paris","80":"tag-yu-han"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}