The US kills off Huawei’s access to Google Android and TSMC. Almost completely killing their consumer business.
But then hands them a lifeline: you can buy chips at Qualcomm (but not Mediatek) and Intel (but not AMD). Allowing them to maintain a presence in consumer phones and laptops.
Now 5 years later when they have finally built their own operating system and setup their own fabs - the US kills access to Intel and Qualcomm.
> The US kills off Huawei’s access to Google Android and TSMC. Almost completely killing their consumer business.
One the other hand this is good for consumers. For a few years we used to make fun of HarmonyOS being a knockoff of Android, but we have now reached a point where they are due to cut Android compatibility out. They have a new polyglot UI stack that seems quite performant. Basically we now have a 3rd big smartphone mobile operating system that is about to hit global markets.
However a few years ago Huawei started locking their bootloaders, so I have to wonder how much of the UI stack is actually going to be open source.
I don't know too much about it but it seems to have some similarities to react native. Raycast changed my opinion on react native based apps on macos, and I think linux could benefit from such a thing, although I have only little hope that ArkUI will run on vanilla Linux.
Are you saying that HarmonyOS Next is actually based on the microkernel architecture?
EDIT: I just looked it up, that's awesome. It's pretty amazing that everyone was bashing Huawei and Harmony for so long, but they finally managed to pull it off.
Do you have any reference that breaks down the system architecture into more details than whats in the wikipedia article?
I agree, this is to Chinas benefit long term, it's only useful to the US if the US intends on doing a 'timing' attack. The simplest explanation is that those in charge of the US really are that stupid. The nefarious explanation would be that China is able to exert the influence needed to make this happen.
This is an absurd spin. Huawei and teg Chinese leadership more broadly knew what they were getting themselves into by using Google tech on their flagship phones. They decided it was worth it, until the US cut them off. They could have started work on this new OS at any point before that, or at any point in the future while also selling Android smartphones.
Maybe Huawei simply stopped lobbying now they have alternatives - it is known they spent millions in US lobbying just getting the daughter of their founder freed.
Huawei is basically Chinese government's military tech arm, so a few reasons might be - increased Chinese military support for Russia, cold war tension ratcheted, US view China as very weak right now and want to increase the pressure
US big tech is basically US government military tech arm. We have all seen those Snowden revelation and those leaked Google project Maven and Microsoft holo lens hud stuff. Does it matter for non US or Chinese citizen for most of us its just cool tech. The more players in that field the better the products.
> US big tech is basically US government military tech arm.
Completely different from that of China. US big tech are own by individual organizations out of US government and cooperate with it. Huawei benefits people from CCP directly.
The US kills off Huawei’s access to Google Android and TSMC. Almost completely killing their consumer business.
But then hands them a lifeline: you can buy chips at Qualcomm (but not Mediatek) and Intel (but not AMD). Allowing them to maintain a presence in consumer phones and laptops.
Now 5 years later when they have finally built their own operating system and setup their own fabs - the US kills access to Intel and Qualcomm.
Why?