The White House unveiled the results of the "Huawei chip" investigation, and foreign media speculated about Cook's mood
As one of the leading technology companies in China and the world, Huawei is breaking the technology blockade of the United States in the fields of communication technology, integrated circuit design, and smartphones, which means that the United States regards Huawei as such"A thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh", not hesitating to take various measures to limit Huawei's development.
To this end, the United States not only included Huawei in the entity list, requiring Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Flextronics and other American companies to stop cooperating with Huawei and stop providing any products and services to Huawei, but also asked TSMC to cut off Huawei's Kirin chip foundry** and prohibit Huawei products from entering the U.S. market.
The United States has launched three rounds of sanctions against Huawei, which is undoubtedly a blow to Huawei's development, although Huawei HiSilicon is the world's leading chip design company, but there is no development in the field of chip manufacturing and semiconductor equipment. Chips are a very large industrial chain, and today's chips also need to rely on global division of labor and cooperation to complete, and it is naturally difficult to complete chip manufacturing independently by relying on Huawei alone.
What the United States did not expect was that Huawei's revenue fell directly below the belt in the case of mobile phone shipments, but it continued to maintain a large amount of capital investment, and even fully invested in the domestic tablet industry chain through Hubble.
Not long ago, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo arrogantly said before his visit to China that if Huawei does not give up the research and development of cutting-edge technology, the United States will launch more severe sanctions against Huawei. But what Raimondo didn't expect was that Huawei could even be considered a blow to Raimondo within 24 hours of **mate60pro.
Raimondo's reaction shows that the United States does not know about the Mate60Pro. After all, if Raimondo was familiar with this issue, he would certainly not have said harsh things about Huawei in this matter.
From the perspective of the United States, Huawei's mobile phone wants to ship chips must be an unavoidable point, and Huawei has been relying on the acquisition of Qualcomm's 4G chips in recent years to meet demand. Therefore, Huawei was able to ship a large number of Mate60Pro without the knowledge of the United States, which means that Huawei is likely to have solved the problem of the chip **chain.
Therefore, after the first teardown test of the Mate60Pro in the United States, the United States came up with an predictable but unacceptable answer, the chip used in the Huawei Mate60Pro is provided by Chinese manufacturers and supported to reach the advanced chip level.
In fact, the response of the United States to this must be expected, after all, as the birthplace of semiconductors, the United States has a great deal of say in the field of semiconductors, Qualcomm can only send 4G chips to Huawei, and TSMC and Samsung are limited to providing foundry services to Huawei. In this case, if Huawei wants to obtain advanced chips, it must only let domestic chips be responsible for OEM production.
Next, the United States announced the results of an in-depth investigation into Huawei's chips, Huawei's chips are produced using technology completely unknown to the United States, and the United States cannot determine the foundry of the chip, as well as the specific process of the chip.
After the United States announced the results of its investigation into Huawei's chips, some foreign media said: Cook was heartbroken. After all, Apple is not in a good position at the moment, and it has to face a strong comeback of Huawei, a competitor.
Apple in the Jobs era was arguably the most valuable company in the world and one of the leading technology companies in the United States. Cook is a good manager and has done a great job in a variety of areas such as pricing, marketing, and PR, but there is no doubt that Cook does not understand technology and R&D.
After Cook took over Apple, Apple lost its ability to innovate, resulting in multiple generations of Apple products being criticized by consumers"Toothpaste"Because of this, although Cook has done a very good job in product marketing, Apple users are still losing.
Judging from the current situation, the capital market is pessimistic about Apple's future development, on the eve of the iphone15 conference, Apple's market value increased by $140 billion within a few days, and 24 hours after the iPhone15 conference, Apple's market value increased by $50 billion.
Consumers are also disappointed with Apple again, iPhone15After the press conference, it was revealed that the iPhone15 pass rate produced in India was less than 74%, and the pass rate was only 37% of the 100 iPhone15 sampled in Europe.
Even Cook himself is not hopeful about Apple, it is reported that Cook sold more than 500,000 shares of Apple ** some time ago, cashing out $300 million in cash. This isn't Cook's first Apple, but in the last decade, Cook has raised only $7$500 million.
With sales and profits plummeting in many regions, Huawei making a strong comeback as a competitor, repeatedly raiding its factories in India, questioning the quality control of iPhones, and partial bans and bans on Apple products in China, Russia, France and other countries, there is no doubt that Apple is falling from the altar, and the company that once ushered in a new era of smartphones is on its way to decline due to its arrogance and hubris. No wonder there are foreign ** claims"Cook's heart was broken"。