The most extraordinary confirmation has come from Huawei. Xu Zhijun, Huawei’s rotating chairman, has explicitly credited American restrictions with “supercharging” China’s semiconductor research and development.
Huawei has largely freed itself from reliance on US technology, according to Yu Chengdong, the company's executive director and chairman of its terminal business group ... In 2023, Huawei resumed domestic production of smartphone chips.
DeepSeek has revealed it is open sourcing a set of infrastructure components for Huawei's Ascend accelerators ... The reputational problem Huawei faces here predates the repositories.