Huawei Scraps First Product Launch As US Trade Ban Bites

 

Richard Yu Chengdong, chief executive of Huawei's mobile business, told CNBC that the Shenzhen-based company has indefinitely put aside for now the launch of a new product in its Matebook series. The US blacklist, which prohibits American companies from selling products and services to Huawei, was behind the cancellation, as reported by Yu. The company did not immediately confirm the remarks by Yu.

 

The Post reported last month that Microsoft had stopped acknowledging new orders from Huawei after the Chinese telecoms gear and smartphone maker was added to the US Entity List. The two major areas of business between Huawei and Microsoft - Windows operating systems for laptops and other content-related services - have both been dangling by the US company as it drives to stick to US government restrictions, according to the Post report, which referred people familiar with the matter.

 

Huawei, the largest smartphone vendor in China and the second largest all over the world, has been pushing its laptop business not long ago, launching a series of personal computers that cover the mid- and high-end markets.

 

Huawei also confronts the prospect of not being able to use the Android operating system (OS) on its smartphones and Windows OS on its PC products. The company set out work on an alternative OS seven years earlier and yet isn't fully prepared to launch it yet as the US ban came on suddenly, sources told the Post in a separate report.

 

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