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Intel and Xilinx argued against the resent Huawei U.S. ban during a meeting held with the Commerce Department. Executives of the top U.S. chipmakers including Intel and Xilinx attended a meeting in May with the U.S. Commerce Department to discuss about Huawei’s placement on the black list.
Huawei uses Xilinx FPGAs for its accelerated cloud servers to make real time HEVC encoding possible for streaming video and speed up machine learning as well as accelerating data analytics by 10 to 50x. The companies attended the meeting claim that Huawei’s smartphones and computer hardware do not carry the same security risk as the 5G networking equipment so they should be kept off from the ban.Hi
Qualcomm, the largest chip maker from U.S. also stand in favor of Huawei. Earlier this year Qualcomm and Huawei reached an interim licensing agreement. Huawei was reluctant to pay the patent fees in the beginning but later agreed to pay Qualcomm $150 million a quarter.
Vice president of public affairs for Huawei, Andrew Williamson, said that the company has not asked anyone to intervene and lobby for them against the ban put in place by Donald Trump Administration. Google told the Trump administration earlier this month, that preventing Huawei from using Android threatens U.S. security.
