The Information: Huawei tells clients its flagship Ascend 960DT will run largely on Samsung and SK Hynix HBM
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 3 November 2026
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Key facts
- Ascend 960DT: large share expected to use Korean HBM (Samsung, SK Hynix), per Huawei’s comments to clients
- Article headline concerns smuggling of memory chips from South Korea to China
What happened
Paywalled; written from the Techmeme summary.
Sources
1 source from 1 site. Numbers match the chips in the text.
1 source: 1 press
Press
- The Information: smugglers get expensive memory chips from South Korea to China (Nov 3)theinformation.com, press
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