MediaTek seeks U.S. permission to supply cutting-edge 5G chips to Huawei

In May of last year, the U.S. Commerce Department put Huawei on the Entity List over fears that the company's close ties with the Communist Chinese government would result in information about U.S. consumers and corporations getting sent to servers in Beijing. Thanks to its placement on the Entity List, Huawei found itself banned from the U.S. supply chain that it spent $18 billion on two years before. This forced to scramble to find replacement suppliers for certain components and the company replaced the Google ecosystem with its own Huawei Mobile Services.

MediaTek asks the U.S. ...

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