Huawei will not be able to use microSD memory cards in its future designs
In recent days companies like Panasonic and ARM have joined Google in their decision to break relationships with Chinese technology manufacturer Huawei after the executive order of the administration of Donald Trump, which, according to information security audit specialists could represent a serious blow against the company’s business plans.
Now, the SD Association, a commercial group
that sets the standards to use on SD and microSD cards, has decided that Huawei
will not be able to use microSD cards in their next smartphone models.
The Association has just informed its decision
to remove the Chinese company from the authorized Original Equipment
Manufacturers (OEM) list to use these storage cards.
This decision does not impact users of existing
Huawei smartphones, noted the information security audit specialists. SD and microSD
cards will keep functioning as before; instead, the measure will begin to be
effective for the company’s future designs.
Huawei has also entered the black list of the WiFi
Alliance, an organization that defines the standards to be implemented
in devices with WiFi connection capabilities (smartphones, computer equipment,
IoT devices, etc. adhere to these standards). “After knowing president
Trump’s decision, we have decided to temporarily restrict Huawei from the list
of companies backed up for the use of our standards,” as mentioned by the
WiFi Alliance statement.
Information security audit experts from the
International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) consider this decision to mean
a severe blow to the Chinese company, although apparently Huawei has been
preparing for this class of decisions for a while. The company has its own
memory cards that can be implemented in its future developments; these cards
are even smaller than a microSD.
Specialists in the subject have not stopped
speculating about the future of the company, which is currently the second largest
smartphone manufacturer selling devices worldwide; moreover, the plans that
other companies, such as Microsoft, have in this regard, are still unknown. It
is believed that the company could stop launching Windows operating system
upgrades for Huawei-designed laptops, although an official stance is not yet
known.
Gloss