Intel and Xilinx argued against the Huawei ban during a meeting with the Commerce Department that took place in late May. Both companies make FPGAs (Intel acquired Xilinx rival Altera). Huawei used Xilinx FPGAs in its “accelerated cloud servers” to do real-time HEVC encoding for streaming video as well as speed up machine learning and data analytics by 10-50x.
Qualcomm argued in favor of Huawei too, unsurprisingly. Earlier this year after the two companies reached an interim licensing agreement. Like Apple, Huawei was reluctant to pay the patent fees but later agreed to pay Qualcomm $150…
