Welcome to the tech meme Right Home for Monday, May 18th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The tech trade war is really heating up again in case you missed it.

What if coronavirus is what helps Google

actually win at messaging? Clubhouse is an interesting raise, raising eyebrows, and why

pizza arbitrage shows that the food delivery space is not only broken but

basically spits in the face of efficient market theory. Here's what you missed today

in the world of tech. I don't know if this got noticed late last week or if it got swept under the carpet of news

but I did tell you that the US has taken additional steps to basically cut off Huawei's air supply.

Already Huawei was denied access to U.S. produced software, but now the U.S. is looking

to ban sales of semiconductor and semiconductor designs produced by U.S. firms to

Huawei, so I guess it's a matter of cutting off the hardware air supply along with

the software air supply. Well there have already been some repercussions from that. Taiwan

Semic semiconductor, also known as T.S.C. the biggest contract chipmaker in the

world, has halted new orders from Huawei in response to U.S. export controls,

although orders placed before the new orders came down

are apparently not affected.

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Huawei, the world's biggest telecom equipment maker and second biggest smartphone maker,

relies heavily on T.S.C. to manufacture its advanced chip designs,

including all of the mobile processors

used in Huawei's flagship smartphones.

The Taiwanese company, which also produces artificial intelligence processors and networking chips for

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