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To: elmatador who wrote (141343)	5/12/2018 10:15:58 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217750

It's not just the chips in telecom units but also the IP they lost the use of for 7 years, so no access to the Android operating system. Huawei is very busy writing their own operating system to try to weather their own 7 year drought. The chip designers are a choice of Samsung, which won't license or sell their chips to anyone (only for Samsung phones) and Qualcomm which they lose access to in the trading ban. TSMC in Taiwan makes chips but they're all Qualcomm designs. We'll see how low it takes China to engineer communications chips without infringing on US or Korean IP. Chinese firms can more easily sell copied technology within China, which they will have to pay for later, but exporting products with stolen IP will prove problematic.