US bans ZTE from buying Qualcomm chipsets for seven years

16 April 2018
This has the potential to impact ZTE's business in a big way.

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  • 17 Apr 2018

It is not so good for ZTE export since the customers will be skeptical for non Quallcom chipsets. But on the other hand, ZTE has the full potential to build their own. And perhaps in the end such restrictions will ruin the business of Quallcom itself. ZTE and Huawei are the leading developers and manufacturers of carriers equipment. They are ready with 5g. US government is protecting Intel and Apple with those bans. They are not ready to build 5g networks, but in the US they won't let foreign company to build the network.
But in my opinion, finally the customers will win, since ZTE will come out with a better product, Quallcom will lose its positions and they will sell it to a chinese company not because someone wants it, but because they have patents. The business will go to China and a lot of people will lose their jobs in US. But only the people from countries with gas have to worry for such things.

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    • 7Xe
    • 17 Apr 2018

    AnonD-752633, 17 Apr 2018If ZTE can't buy chips from Qualcomm, then why can't they j... moreThat's not as easy as buying ice cream at the local convenience store, you know.

      ChronoRad, 17 Apr 2018I don't get how this move affects Samsung, if anything it h... moreMain problem with Exynos is that the modem doesn't support CDMA (that is used by China Telecom which are selling a lot of ZTE phones).

        Zero, 17 Apr 2018This is an excuse to take down even Samsung to US and leave... moreI don't get how this move affects Samsung, if anything it helps Samsung by selling more Exynos chips than before.

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          • vgM
          • 17 Apr 2018

          Yes they can use exynos mtk kirin.. hope US bans for all chinese vendors, and no they wont do that

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            • L8Q
            • 17 Apr 2018

            Patrick, 17 Apr 2018This is not only the negative news for ZTE, they've been di... moreThis is an excuse to take down even Samsung to US and leave only Apple in charge.

            Even Nokia is affected too. And Nokia is known to be secure in that matter.

            So this is Apple PR moving to take the entire US for them.

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              • Anonymous
              • 7Z%
              • 17 Apr 2018

              Anonymous, 17 Apr 2018We don't trust them as they might hack into our Facebook pi... moreyou got mark Zuckerberg when comes to trust lol

                No problem .They can buy Samsung's exynos or mediatek .

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                  • t7X
                  • 17 Apr 2018

                  If ZTE can't buy chips from Qualcomm, then why can't they just buy Helio X-30 chips from Mediatek?

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                    • Anonymous
                    • tDR
                    • 17 Apr 2018

                    what about Surge S2, was it G71 MP8 ?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 39x
                      • 17 Apr 2018

                      AnonD-468012, 17 Apr 2018Why every chinese brand has problem in UK and US? We don't trust them as they might hack into our Facebook pics on our smartphones, laptops or whatever ...... heaven forbid.

                      But hey

                      Let the Chinese build a nuclear plant in the UK.......

                      you couldn't make it up.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • mk7
                        • 17 Apr 2018

                        Anonymous, 17 Apr 2018who cares about the nation behind "the wall". hope rest of... moreI really doubt that people could appreciate their lies releasing false security patches. Perhaps they are too busy developing backdoors for their phones instead of protect their customers.

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                          • 17 Apr 2018

                          Why every chinese brand has problem in UK and US?

                            Anonymous, 17 Apr 2018or perhaps work with HiSilicon or Exynos for their own chipset.Exynos is likelier. Hisilicon is Huawei only

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                              • p26
                              • 17 Apr 2018

                              meh, 17 Apr 2018i'll take democratic capitalism over Chinese authoritarian,... morewho cares about the nation behind "the wall".
                              hope rest of the world (not the one constantly starting wars) will be able to appreciate full scope of zte products.
                              :)

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 39x
                                • 17 Apr 2018

                                Patrick, 17 Apr 2018This is not only the negative news for ZTE, they've been di... moreYeah, not the only bad headlines

                                "The UK's cyber-defence watchdog has confirmed it has blacklisted one of China's leading state-owned companies"

                                https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-43784990

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                                  • P@Y
                                  • 17 Apr 2018

                                  Capitalism at its best, its not the government who did this they were just forced by a private company to do so! (fruit)cough cough

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                                    • Ir5
                                    • 17 Apr 2018

                                    AnonD-729182, 17 Apr 2018Perhaps ZTE will begin making chips in-house, though that i... moreor perhaps work with HiSilicon or Exynos for their own chipset.

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                                      • Y26
                                      • 17 Apr 2018

                                      Perhaps ZTE will begin making chips in-house, though that is extremely unlikely. I wonder if MediaTek has improved in the 3 years I've been ignoring them.

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                                        • 17 Apr 2018

                                        [deleted post]i'll take democratic capitalism over Chinese authoritarian, "social credits", no term limits any day.

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