Huawei Chief Says Thousands of US-Banned Parts Replaced in Its Devices
News 18– Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's founder said that the company has replaced more than 13,000 parts in its products that were hit by U.S. trade sanctions, according to a transcript of a speech posted on Friday by a Chinese university. According to the transcript posted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said Huawei had over the past three years replaced the 13,000 components with domestic Chinese substitutes and had redesigned 4,000 circuit boards for it products. The Biden administration last year also banned the sale of new Huawei equipment in the U.S. Ren made the remarks in a talk to Chinese technology experts on Feb. 24, the university said. The reports come after analysts said that Huawei showed off 5G telecommunications equipment at an industry conference in Barcelona in which all of the chips on its circuit boards had their origins obscured.