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by onepointsixC 2388 days ago
You have it backward, the parts themselves are usually created in Fab's outside of China while they are assembled (most labor-intensive process) in China. The whole article is about how Huawei is extremely dependent on components outside of China but has shifted from mostly US chips to EU, Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean Chips.
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The article seems to say that they're mainly shifting to HiSilicon, their in house chip design wing.