ARM supply halt deals fresh blow to Huawei

British chip designer ARM halted relations with Huawei to comply with a US blockade of the company, potentially crippling the Chinese telecom company’s ability to make new chips for its future smartphones.

Huawei, like Apple Inc and Qualcomm, uses ARM blueprints to design the processors that power its smartphones. It also licenses graphics technology from the Cambridge-based company which is owned by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp.