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Huawei Teardown Shows 7nm Chip in Blow to US Sanctions
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Those graphs you presented alone were pretty informative.
How come Xiaomi has no problem obtaining the competing Snapdragon 8 gen 2 for the Xiaomi 13?
The US government placed Huawei into the US's so called "entity list". Qualcomm needs US government authorization to sell to Huawei and they're limited to selling 4G SOCs.
The P60 having the SD 8+G1 might be lag from Qualcomm having to make a 4G variant or lag from Huawei transitioning from Kirin to SD SOCs. Alternatively it could just be that the SD 8G2 is not worth the price Qualcomm is selling it at given that Poco doesn't bother to use it for their best phone, the F5 Pro.
There are no trade restrictions to selling to other Chinese smartphone brands. Qualcomm would collapse if it weren't allowed to sell to them. BBK, Transsion, and Xiaomi buy up most of Qualcomm's phone chips and make most of the world's phones. Samsung uses its own Exynos for the A series phones that make up the bulk of its sales.