Huawei tossed from SD Association, Wi-Fi Alliance, RAM spec group

Compounding Huawei's woes, the Chinese company has been removed not just from the Wi-Fi Alliance, and RAM spec controller JEDEC, but also from the SD Association, preventing it from offering official SD/microSD support in future devices.

The Association attributed the removal to the Trump administration' srecent orders involving national security, according to Nikkei. The White House has argued that equipment from Huawei and fellow Chinese firm ZTE could potentially lead to backdoors in American networks, given links to the Chinese government.

Many partners have had to sever ties with Huawei due to both an executive order and the firm being added to an "Entity List," preventing it from buying from U.S. suppliers without a license. These include ARM, Google, Intel, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and others.

The U.S. did recently offer Huawei a reprieve, albeit temporary.

Meanwhile the Wi-Fi Alliance has "temporarily restricted" Huawei's membership, and the company has voluntarily split from JEDEC, a semiconductor standards organization.

The situation has left Huawei scrambling to find alternatives, and vowing to try and lift restrictions if possible. It also worsened the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, with China refusing to talk again unless the U.S. reverses course.

55 Comments

mac_dog 1083 comments · 16 Years

About 5 years ago

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark.

genovelle 1481 comments · 16 Years

mac_dog said:

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark.

The possible retaliation has the potential to wreck havoc on our entire economy.

AppleExposed 1805 comments · 6 Years

genovelle said:

mac_dog said:

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark.

The possible retaliation has the potential to wreck havoc on our entire economy.

One knockoff manufacturer will do nothing, unless you mean retaliation which will hurt both parties.

DAalseth 3033 comments · 6 Years

genovelle said:

mac_dog said:

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark.

The possible retaliation has the potential to wreck havoc on our entire economy.

However justified the suspicion , lord Dampnuts just made it clear that he’s using Huawei as a hostage to try to extort trade concessions from China. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48392021 He said something similar about the Huawei CFO that they are trying to extradite from Canada.

muthuk_vanalingam 1367 comments · 8 Years

Few questions to ponder for huawei haters in this forum:
1. If trump gets a better trade deal from China, would that automatically exonerate huawei of all these security threats posed by them???
2. When it actually happens, what would be your reaction???
3. If ip theft by Chinese companies is your real concern, then why are you not asking the question to trump administration - "why huawei alone? What about the likes of xiaomi, bbk sub brands Oppo/vivo/one plus??? Are they all saints?"
4. What is the real issue with China and huawei? Is it Trade imbalance? Or Security? They are both mutually exclusive. If security is an issue, what about ZTE?

Is the bigger picture really being looked at by trump supporters in this forum??? As a neutral person from a different country, it does not look like so to me.