Hisilicon

Hisilicon is a Chinese factory-free company developing semiconductor products, a division of Huawei. The business is based on the creation of chips for consumer electronics, communications, optical devices.

History

2025: Global Smartphone Processor Market Revenue Growth Despite Multiyear U.S. Sanctions

At the end of 2024, the division Hisilicon of the Chinese corporation Huawei increased its share in the global processor market for - Androidsmartphones a premium level by one and a half times compared to 2023, while the company's revenue from the supply of these chips doubled. Such data are provided in a study by Counterpoint Technology Market Research, the results of which were published on May 7, 2025. More here

2020: Hiring IT workers from all over the world with a salary promise 5 times higher than the market

On June 2, 2020, it became known that microchip developer Hisilicon, a subsidiary of the Chinese corporation Huawei, began hiring university graduates and IT specialists from around the world.

Recruitment is underway as part of Huawei's recently launched global program. Hisilicon promises potential employees a salary five times higher than what they receive in their current workplace or, in the case of university graduates, that they could offer given the lack of real work experience. Huawei published a poster in Chinese, in which it spoke about its efforts to find talent.

According information to the source, the program applies to graduate students or holders of a master's degree who have already completed their studies no earlier than January 1, 2017 or are preparing for graduation no later than December 31, 2021. The stated goal of the program is "to overcome obstacles in various areas, including architecture, computer ON semiconductors, technologies for making chipsets and others." In the text of the poster, among the problems in which future employees will have to participate, the slowdown of Moore's law is mentioned. Moore's Law is an observation by founder Intel Gordon Moore that the number of transistors placed on an integrated circuit chip doubles every two years.

Hisilicon manufactures chips for consumer, electronic engineers hardware communications and optical devices. In particular, the company designs branded - ARM(processors SoC) designs that Kirin are the "heart" of many smartphones tablet and Huawei computers.

In May 2020, it became known that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a key partner of Huawei, which produces Kirin mobile chips based on the Hisillicon design, has stopped taking orders from the Chinese corporation.

According to the Nikkei Asian Review, TSMC took this step under pressure from the American authorities - its refusal to cooperate with Huawei was the result of tightening export control by the United States. The US authorities took these measures in order to further restrict Huawei's access to American technology.

On May 11, 2020, the administration of US President Donald Trump and TSMC began negotiations on the possible construction of its chip factories in the United States. On May 12, 2020, TSMC gave an uncertain answer about its plans to place the plant within the American borders, and on May 15, the company's management gave this venture a green light.

In May 2020, CNews wrote that in the future Huawei could transfer smartphones to MediaTek, Unisoc or Samsung chips. Huawei is considering partnering with each of these companies, plus it already has experience with Mediatek and Unisoc.

In addition, according to Bloomberg, the Huawei is also not going to completely abandon the production of independently designed chips: in May 2020, the PRC government, through a controlled investment fund, increased the authorized capital of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) from $3.5 billion to $6.5 billion. As the publication noted, the funds received will mainly go to expand the production capacity^[1].

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In November 2018, the United States demanded that Germany, Italy and Japan ban the use of any equipment manufactured by Huawei, including those necessary for the deployment of fifth-generation networks. According to the WSJ, the US authorities wanted to discredit Huawei as a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in the eyes of allied countries.

At the same time, as noted in the publication, Washington is setting up allies against Huawei not only and not so much because of possible surveillance by the Celestial Empire. The United States and China are vying to create fifth-generation 5G communication networks. And the matter concerns both the technology itself and the pace of deployment of these networks.

In September 2019, CNews announced plans by the US authorities to support small and rural providers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intended to allocate about $1 billion to such telecommunications providers.

At the end of January 2020, the UK, contrary to the position of the United States, allowed Huawei to supply equipment for 5G deployment, albeit with some restrictions. In particular, the Chinese company will not be allowed to occupy more than 35% of the country's 5G equipment market.

In early February 2020, it became known that, and in Microsoft Dell AT&T collaboration US authorities with, they will develop software standards for 5G the Americancellular networks in order to exclude the use of Huawei equipment in their infrastructure. According to sources, Trump WSJ is personally behind this project.

On May 14, 2020, Trump extended for one year the ban on Chinese telecommunications equipment, one of the largest manufacturers of which is Huawei. The next day, the US Department of Commerce made changes to the export rules "with a strategic focus on Huawei's acquisition of semiconductors, which are a direct product of certain US software and technologies." According to the introduced procedure, foreign manufacturers of semiconductors manufactured abroad using American technologies are forced to obtain a license from the Ministry of Trade to supply their products to Huawei. The rule change, in addition to Huawei and more than a hundred of its subsidiaries, hit TSMC.

On May 17, 2020, the Chinese edition of the Global Times reported that the PRC authorities are preparing a tough response to the latest US sanctions against Huawei. American tech giants such as Apple, Qualcomm, Cisco and Boeing may be included in the list of unreliable organizations in the future. Its participants are tortured by endless checks and investigations.

Despite the difficult relationship between the American authorities and the Chinese giant, since May 2019, the United States has regularly issued permits to do business with Huawei. Each of these licenses is valid for three months and allows you to continue operations with Huawei, including the fulfillment of contracts, export and re-export of products. -- >

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