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Here are all the companies that have cut ties with Huawei, dealing the Chinese tech giant a crushing blow
- Major US companies like Google, Qualcomm, and Intel were quick to sever business ties with the company to comply with the order.
Note: All these public announcements are just words. China has the monopoly of 90% of the rare metals (earth dirt) that all these companies urgently need to continue their multinational adventure. China State media said it could cut exports of 17 metals used in everything from consumer electronics to military equipment, as a counter weapon in the escalating trade war. China produces more than 95% of the globe’s rare earth metals. And Huawei has been working for years on an Android alternative.
Since the US government blacklisted the Chinese tech giant Huawei, a slew of companies have cut ties with the firm.
Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency that allowed Huawei to be designated as a national security risk, leading the Department of Commerce to place the firm on an “entity list.” This means US firms have to seek government permission before doing business with Huawei.
Big US firms were quick to respond to the order, though Huawei subsequently received a three-month license to get its house in order before the blacklisting fully kicks in. It isn’t just American companies that are cutting ties, however.
Here is a rundown of the biggest firms that are severing business relations with Huawei.
Shortly after Huawei was blacklisted by the US government, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that it was revoking the company’s access to its Android service. Bloomberg reported that Google had cut off supply to hardware as well as software.
The news was a huge blow to Huawei, as all of its phones a run on Google’s Android operating system. It means millions of Huawei customers could lose access to security updates and suffer other disruption.
After the Department of Commerce granted Huawei a 90-day reprieve before the ban fully kicks in, Google said it had put its Android suspension on hold. But at the moment, this is simply delaying the inevitable.
Huawei has been working on building its own operating system as a “plan B” for years, and though little is known about it, an executive told CNBC it could be ready for China by this fall and for the rest of the world in the first or second quarter of 2020.
Key US chipmaking companies such as Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf were quick to act. Three days after Huawei was blacklisted, Bloomberg reported that Qualcomm had told its employees it wouldn’t be supplying Huawei until further notice.
Intel CEO Bob Swan was another big name on the list of American chipmakers to cut Huawei off, though according to Bloomberg, Huawei has stockpiled at least three months’ worth of chips and other components in anticipation of a ban.
Lumentum, the US maker of mobile-phone parts, also announced it had stopped shipping parts to Huawei, which it said made up 18% of its total revenue in its latest quarter.
The Japanese tech behemoth Panasonic president, Kazuhiro Tsuga on Thursday announced it had cut ties with Huawei. “We’ve stopped all business transactions with Huawei and its 68 group companies … that are subject to the US government ban,” a spokesman told The Guardian.
The UK chip designer Arm (Simon Segars, CEO) issued a memo to employees telling them to stop “all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei, the BBC reports. The memo said its designs contained “US-origin technology.”
Arm licenses its technology rather than manufacturing chips itself. The Economist’s Hal Hodson pointed out on Twitter that companies typically buy up licenses from Arm several years in advance, meaning it’s possible that Huawei has two to three years’ worth of licenses stored up.
The UK’s largest mobile carrier, Vodafone, on Wednesday announced it was dropping Huawei handsets from its 5G launch, which is due July 3.
“We are pausing pre-orders for the Huawei Mate 20 X (5G) in the UK,” a spokesman told The Guardian. “This is a temporary measure while uncertainty exists regarding new Huawei 5G devices. We will keep this situation under review.”
The British mobile carrier EE joined Vodafone in excluding Huawei from its 5G plans, which are due to launch May 30.
EE told The Guardian it took the decision to can Huawei’s 5G phones following Google’s withdrawal of Android.
Microsoft has yet to make an official statement on its relationship with Huawei, but Huawei’s MateBook laptops disappeared from Microsoft’s online store the weekend after Trump’s executive order.
Microsoft declined to comment when contacted by Business Insider.
Note 2: When China builds your nation’s internet. Across Africa, countries are being connected to the digital economy with help from China. But Beijing believes every nation should be able to create its own version of the internet, and its projects help governments gain more control over the flow of information—to the possible detriment of democracy. In a Quartz video (membership), Nikhil Sonnad travels around Zambia to show how China is helping it become both more connected and more authoritarian.
Note 3: China accused US secretary of state Mike Pompeo of “fabricating rumors” about the company’s alleged ties to government. Meanwhile, president Trump suggested the phonemaker could be part of a future trade deal with China, a week after blacklisting the company from US supply chains.
Note 4: The US temporarily eased restrictions on Huawei. The Chinese telecoms giant will be allowed to buy American-made goods in order to maintain its existing phone networks and handsets, but it is still barred from purchasing American wares to manufacture new products. Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei told Chinese state media that the US underestimates the company.
Liberty in danger: Concentration of Multimedia Multinationals
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 29, 2009
Information and communication technologies (ICT): Transmitter of crisis and catalyst of global economic restructuring?
Astronomical sums are invested in the technologies of information and communication (ICT). In 2008 alone, over 1,800 billion were spent by private and public institutions. Since 1980, half the total investments by banks and financial institutions have been oriented toward the ICT sectors so that exchange of information and transactions be as fluid and instantaneous as desired on global scale.
It followed that banks and financial institutions were drawn to diversification into acquiring factories, lands, real estates, and mines. The IC of multinationals were frequently reconfigured to adjust with evolving strategies and global market access.
Before the financial crash, Citigroup hired 25,000 computer programmers and invested 5 billion on ICT technologies and related infrastructure in 2008. Lehman Brothers was using 3,000 programs on 25,000 servers around the world. This run for IC technologies was viewed as the main tool for “space-time bailout” by channeling capitals to emerging sectors susceptible to inevitable expansion. The age in the 70’s was coined “society of information”. Thus, in 2007, US multinationals profit from outside investment amounted to 25% compared to only 5% in 1960.
So far, Information and Communication Technologies are the two main factors for capitalist global economy expansion and have displaced many traditional economies. For example, Skype (voice on internet) has over 400 million users and is the most important provider of international communication; Skype was the catalyst for the explosion of high debit mobile phone infrastructures and for the demand of internet services to enterprises. This Christmas Eve, we discovered that the world is a town square: we had overseas relatives joining our home party through Skype; many who for some reason could not celebrate did cry; it is better than creating a petrified heart. Facebook has 300 million subscribers and I do send links from my blog on wordpress.com.
Mobile phone is displacing computers and TV markets: there are over 4.5 billion users of mobile phones and the latest generations function as multimedia screens. Apple’s mobile has swept China and South Korea markets; over 100,000 programs were developed for its applications.
Amazon, Apple, and Google (via YouTube) have broken serious barriers into cartels in music, books, video games, and movies. Low priced connections are provoking the centralization of programs, data, images, and emails are frequently stored in “farm servers” belonging to giant operators.
In 2005, 19 out of the 25 first ICT enterprises were US based and over half the satellites were US. Heavy weight consumers of ICT such as Wal-Mart and General Electric imposed standards on information and communication systems that are applied globally. By 2009, Samsung, Nokia, Nintendo, Huawei, Tate, SAP, Telefonica, DoCoMo, Americal Movil, Vodafone, and especially China Mobile are displacing minor US players among the 250 greatest enterprises. Newer investments are primarily flowing from China, India, and Mexico in ICT.
Liberty is in imminent danger: after the financial crash, mainly the ICT multinationals had accumulated financial reserves. The main real danger of total universal hegemony is starting with the giant ICT companies trumpeting acquisition of competitors and setting the stage for an unknown educational, cultural, and economic world. Cisco (the prime provider in web routers) has accumulated financial reserve of $20 billion, Microsoft (the emperor of systems of exploitation) around $19 billion, Google (dominating search engines and on-line video) around $16 billion, Intel (world leader in semi-conductors) around $10 billion, and Apple (programs most prized by elite users) around $26 billion; only China Mobile generated profit of $18 billion in 2009.
Publicity expenditures in 2009 amounted to $500 billion (though they declined by 10% after the financial crash) but multimedia expenditures in the US in 2008 reached $900 billion and are increasing by 2.3%.
The capitalist global economy is going ahead and strong because of IC technologies; we have the impression that the world is reduced to a town square. Political and economical powers are concentrating with a few superpower States controlling and managing information and communication: they have been setting the standards and subjugating independent companies to follow suit. What started as a catalyst to world democratic practices has reverted to world oligarchy of the first kind.
Information/Communication Technologies (ICT): Transmitter of crisis and catalyst of global economic restructuring
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 20, 2009
Information/Communication Technologies (ICT): Transmitter of crisis and catalyst of global economic restructuring; (Dec. 19, 2009)
Astronomical sums are invested in the technologies of information and communication (ICT). In 2008 alone, over 1.8 $trillion were spent by private and public institutions.
Since 1980, half the total investments by banks and financial institutions have been oriented toward the ICT sectors so that exchange of information and transactions be as fluid and instantaneous as desired on global scale. It followed that banks and financial institutions were drawn to diversification into acquiring factories, lands, real estates, and mines.
Multinational ICT companies were frequently reconfigured to adjust with evolving strategies and global market access.
Before the financial crash, Citigroup hired 25,000 computer programmers and invested 5 billion on ICT technologies and related infrastructure in 2008. Lehman Brothers was using 3,000 programs on 25,000 servers around the world.
This run for ICT technologies was viewed as the main tool for “space-time bailout” by channeling capitals to emerging sectors susceptible to inevitable expansion. The age in the 70’s was coined “society of information”. Thus, in 2007, US multinationals profit from outside investment amounted to 25% compared to only 5% in 1960.
So far, Information and Communication technologies are the two main factors for capitalist global economy expansion and have displaced many traditional economies. For example, Skype (voice on internet) has over 400 million users and is the most important provider of international communication. Skype was the catalyst for the explosion of high debit mobile phone infrastructures and for the demand of internet services to enterprises. Facebook has 300 million subscribers (to be updated to over 900,000?).
Mobile phone is displacing computers and TV markets: there are over 4.5 billion users of mobile phones and the latest generations function as multimedia screens. Apple’s mobile has swept China and South Korea markets; over 100,000 programs were developed for its applications.
Amazon, Apple, and Google (via YouTube) have broken serious barriers into cartels in music, books, video games, and movies. Low priced connections are provoking the centralization of programs, data, images, and emails are frequently stored in “farm servers” belonging to giant operators.
In 2005, 19 out of the 25 first ICT enterprises were from the US and over half the satellites are US. Heavy weight consumers of ICT such as Wal-Mart and General Electric impose standards on information and communication systems that are applied globally.
By 2009, Samsung, Nokia, Nintendo, Huawei, Tate, SAP, Telefonica, DoCoMo, Americal Movil, Vodafone, and especially China Mobile are displacing minor US players among the 250 greatest enterprises. Newer investments are primarily flowing from China, India, and Mexico in ICT.
Although Cisco (the prime provider in web routers) has accumulated financial reserve of $20 billion, Microsoft (the emperor of systems of exploitation) around $19 billion, Google (dominating search engines and on-line video) around $16 billion, Intel (world leader in semi-conductors) around $10 billion, and Apple (programs most prized by elite users) around $26 billion, only China Mobile generated profit of $18 billion in 2009.
Publicity expenditures in 2009 amounted to $500 billion (though they declined by 10% after the financial crash), but multimedia expenditures in the US in 2008 reached $900 billion and are increasing by 2.3%.
The giant ICT companies are trumpeting acquisition of competitors and setting the stage for an unknown educational, cultural, and economic world. The capitalist global economy is going ahead and strong because of IC technologies; we have the impression that the world is reduced to a town square.