Huawei will use its own phone chips amid report UK design firm ARM has cut business ties, says analyst

Huawei Technologies is likely to be able to weather a reported suspension of business with UK chip designer ARM as it will be able to rely on its own Kirin chips, according to a research report by Jefferies.

ARM, which develops the designs for chips used in smartphones and other connected devices, supplies two types of licence to Huawei – core and architectural – but any suspension will have limited impact on Huawei’s smartphone production, at least in the short-term, Jefferies analyst Rex Wu wrote in a note on Wednesday.