Huawei

includes Huawei Ascend, Huawei Kirin, Huawei P9

8 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Evan Osnos · said 50 times in 19 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Dylan Patel (13), David Sacks (6), Benedict Evans (3), Steven Sinofsky (2), Marc Andreessen (2), Connie Chan (2), Congressman Mike Gallagher (2), Qasar Younis (1)

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2019 9 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode

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Everything said about Huawei, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
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Osnos: Huawei hiring lawyers signaled China's shift toward IP protection
“One of the clearest signs that China was beginning to take IP more seriously and regard it differently was when a company like Huawei, for instance, was hiring a lot of lawyers, because that meant they were suing other people to defend their own IP.”
Evan Osnos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:25 a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Unicode Voting Power Concentrated Among US Tech Giants, SAP, and Oman
“No, so of those 12, so of those 12, nine are U.S. Multinational tech companies. Oracle, IBM, Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Facebook, Microsoft, and Symantec. Then of the other three full voting members, one is the German software company SAP, another is the Chinese te…”
Jenny Lee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:13 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Gallagher: U.S. allows unlimited investment in Chinese tech and defense contractors
“We're greenlighting unlimited investment in the worst of bad actors, including Huawei, DJI. You should have seen the lobbying effort against my DJI drone ban. I mean, it was just crazy. We're investing in Chinese defense con contractors.”
Congressman Mike Gallagher Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 20:24 Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Gallagher: Huawei is rebounding using SMIC semiconductors and US tech access
“Like right now Huawei is off the mat. It's coming back with SMIC semiconductors, in part because they still have access to U.S. Technology, right?”
Congressman Mike Gallagher Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 22:30 The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
Sep 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patel: HBM production capacity remains a bottleneck for Huawei
“I think production capacity wise, it is still absolutely a bottleneck. They certain types of equipment required for making HBM need to be imported. They're working on domestic solutions, but as far as we know, they have not imported enough equipment for this.”
Dylan Patel Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 15:21 Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
Sep 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Patel: Huawei surpassed Apple in TSMC orders and market share before bans
“Yeah, well, like, I mean, like, every other, like, Huawei's beat Apple, right? They passed Apple up in TSMC orders, they passed Apple up in phone market share not in the US, but, like, in many parts of the world. Before the bans came down, and then even now th…”
Dylan Patel Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 19:22 Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
Sep 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Patel: Huawei Sourced 2.9 Million TSMC Chips via Shell Entities
“They were able to acquire three million chips, 2.9 million chips from TSMC through these other entities, right? Roughly five hundred million dollars worth of orders”
Dylan Patel Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 7:55 Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Huawei's Cloud Matrix networks 384 chips to match Nvidia rack performance
“Back in April Huawei launched a technology called Cloud Matrix in which they compensated for the fact that their chips individually are not as good as NVIDIA's chips by networking more of them together. So they took 384 of them. Now you use their prowess in ne…”
David Sacks Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 1:03:48 Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
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