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Tom’s Hardware
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Jowi Morales

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech

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Huawei’s current Rotating Chairman and Deputy Chairman Xu Zhijun said during an interview that the company is thankful for the pressure that the U.S. has applied on it and China, in general. The comment came after someone asked how Huawei came up with the groundbreaking LogicFolding chip architecture the company developed, and Xu said that he was grateful toward the U.S. for allowing the company to achieve that, reports Huawei Central.

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