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stephenheron ◴[] No.23831351[source]
I would encourage people to read the NCSC blog post on this as it goes into technical detail on why the decision was made.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/a-different-future-for-tel...

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1. pqhwan ◴[] No.23837726[source]
Effectively US is pulling US-made chip design tools from under huawei’s manufacturing process. Seems that the political calculus is that this will damage huawei’s standing, at the expense of global technological cooperation. But to what end? It falls short of providing Huawei (and the state behind it) with incentives to be more transparent with their technology, and at best creates a necessity for them to become wholly independent in their process. I guess the US is betting they can’t pull this off, but if they do, this policy has bought US nothing but a few years of suppression and a fiercer competition.
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2. remarkEon ◴[] No.23839313[source]
>It falls short of providing Huawei (and the state behind it) with incentives to be more transparent with their technology, and at best creates a necessity for them to become wholly independent in their process. I guess the US is betting they can’t pull this off...

Bingo. It seems like this is more a bet that they can't become wholly independent without the tooling itself, or can't become independent for a long while. I doubt it has much to do with "setting up incentives for transparency". I think the "will China become transparent about its actions" question is pretty much settled at this point.