As the United States is putting more sanctions on Huawei, some companies in China, including Unisoc, is now trying to poach people from the Chinese giant as they are expecting brain drain from Huawei.
If the report coming from China is to be believed, then IC design companies and headhunters are now stepping up their efforts to poach executives from HiSilicon, a chipmaking arm of Huawei.
This comes at a time when the United State government tightened export controls in a move aimed at limiting Huawei’s access to chip supplies. Since then, TSMC, the world’s biggest contract chip manufacturers, has stopped taking new orders from Huawei.
It is also being reported that a number of employees from Huawei HiSilicon have recently joined Unisoc in a management reshuffle at the company. This also presents an opportunity for smartphone makers like Xiaomi and OPPO, which have been trying to develop their own smartphone chipsets.
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For those who are unaware, last month, the U.S. Commerce Department announced that all the chip manufacturers using American chipmaking equipment, intellectual property or design software needs to apply for a license before shipping chips to Huawei.
This is a similar requirement that the U.S. added when it put Huawei on the Entity List last year, effectively banning the company. However, the Chinese giant is actively trying to reduce its dependency on other companies and has not started manufacturing chips in China itself and is heavily investing in that department.
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