Huawei vehemently denies this, but to no avail. The US has banned it from its telecom infrastructure and persuaded allies to follow suit, suspecting that Huawei’s networks and equipment enable the Chinese government to snoop on the data traffic they carry. It has been the world’s cheapest provider of telecom gear and rapidly gained market share around the world. It spends 15-20 per cent of its turnover on R&D. It is a company that was set up to give China indigenous capability in the entire telecom value chain, from developing communications and signalling technologies to designing chips, routers and telecom networks to producing the components that go into setting up a telecom network, besides making handsets. India should have its own chipmaking capability that is not hostage to political whims of nations that control key technologies. Why should the release of a new model by a Chinese company matter to India, particularly its ambition to become a global chip superpower? Phone companies keep coming out with new models. This warrants a rethink of India’s strategy to manufacture microprocessor chips. CHINESE telecom major Huawei released a 5G capable phone, the Mate 60, on September 4.
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