Japan's Kioxia gets US go-ahead to supply server chips to Huawei

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Kioxia's license from the U.S. to export to Huawei Technologies covers commodity chips for servers, but not its mainstay memory chips. © Reuters

YOICHIRO HIROI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese chipmaker Kioxia has received permission from U.S. authorities to export some products to sanctioned Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies, Nikkei has learned.

The license likely applies mainly to commodity chips for such applications as data center servers. It is not believed to include flash memory for smartphones, a mainstay of Kioxia, which was formerly Toshiba's memory unit.

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