Huawei's chipmaking ambitions at risk after Arm cuts ties

Move by key UK chip designer chokes off crucial intellectual property rights

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Arm's chip designs form a crucial part of the global mobile device supply chain. (Photo courtesy of Arm)

CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI -- The decision by U.K.-based chip designer Arm Holdings, which provides intellectual property used in 90% of the world's mobile processors, to suspend business with Huawei Technologies raises a cloud of uncertainty over the Chinese company's long-term aim of becoming a bigger force in semiconductors.

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