Huawei may transfer licenses to develop its smartphones to other brands
Miscellaneous / / November 15, 2021
The company name will no longer be on such devices.
Huawei Technologies, whose smartphone business has been destroyed by US sanctions, plans to transfer licenses to develop its mobile phones to other brands. This will allow her to access critical components. About it writes Bloomberg.
The source notes that Huawei is considering licensing its developments to a division of the state China Postal and Telecommunications Appliances Co. The latter will be able to purchase parts that are inaccessible to the most Huawei. However, it will also release smartphones under its own brand, without mentioning the Chinese giant.
Another source said that the Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer TD Tech Ltd. will also sell some phones with Huawei design under its own brand.
As a reminder, US sanctions have blocked Huawei's access to key chipmaker TSMC, Google's Android apps and Qualcomm's 5G wireless modems.
About a year ago the company sold its sub-brand Honor to a consortium led by a state-owned company in Shenzhen, freeing the division from all restrictions. The success of this deal prompted Huawei to seek new partnerships to maintain its consumer business.
Huawei engineers have already started upgrading hardware, according to one source. some popular HiSilicon based models so that they can be adapted to Qualcomm processors or MediaTek. Huawei expects to ship more than 30 million smartphones, including its own models and models sold by partners, next year.