Huawei loses access to vital chip design updates from Synopsys

Move by US company risks leaving Chinese group 'in the dark,' source says

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A HiSilicon chip is displayed at a conference in the Chinese city of Fuzhou on March 21. The Huawei subsidiary is China's leading chip designer. © Reuters

CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI -- The world's biggest supplier of chip design tools has stopped providing software updates to Huawei Technologies, a move industry observers say marks another setback to the Chinese company's global ambitions in semiconductors.

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