huawei: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/huawei/ Everyone on the record about huawei: 11 verbatim quotes from 3 people, June 2020 to September 2025, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:00 +0000 Dylan Patel: Patel reports Huawei acquired 2.9 million chips worth $500 million from TSMC through shell compan https://minutesof.com/q/e898c1a1-99db-492b-b3b5-38d0af412c82/ https://minutesof.com/q/e898c1a1-99db-492b-b3b5-38d0af412c82/ “they were able to acquire 3,000,000 chips, 2,900,000 chips from TSMC through these other entities. Right?” — Dylan Patel, a16z Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:01:51 +0000 huawei Dylan Patel: Patel says Huawei trained significant models on Ascend chips before 2020 Trump ban took full effe https://minutesof.com/q/9871fa14-c7f3-4c9f-a84a-0f093f92a2ce/ https://minutesof.com/q/9871fa14-c7f3-4c9f-a84a-0f093f92a2ce/ “The the full ban. And so they were only able to make a small volume of these chips, but they had trained significant models on these chips that they made then.” — Dylan Patel, a16z Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:01:51 +0000 huawei Dylan Patel: Patel says Huawei brought seven nanometer AI chips to market first in 2020 with minimal gap to NV https://minutesof.com/q/bcf648c8-741d-4bb8-a8f4-c7267c7bba53/ https://minutesof.com/q/bcf648c8-741d-4bb8-a8f4-c7267c7bba53/ “In 2020, they released an Ascend chip and submit it to impartial public benchmarks, and they were the first to bring seven nanometer AI chips to market.” — Dylan Patel, a16z Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:01:51 +0000 huawei Brad Gerstner: Gerstner warns Huawei went from 0% to 50% Saudi market share, arguing US must export AI technol https://minutesof.com/q/b39df35c-a461-4811-aca6-f8de41c8d66d/ https://minutesof.com/q/b39df35c-a461-4811-aca6-f8de41c8d66d/ “Huawei has gone from 0% market share in Saudi Arabia to 50% market share in Saudi Arabia.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:50:39 +0000 huawei Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove argues any Chinese corporation is ultimately controlled by the Communist Party https://minutesof.com/q/321d744a-ee78-4f0e-a5dc-d76292b806f4/ https://minutesof.com/q/321d744a-ee78-4f0e-a5dc-d76292b806f4/ “The fact is you cannot get around the security problem that any Chinese corporation is ultimately under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. If in a crisis they are told to jump.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:35 +0000 huawei Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove reveals intelligence community objected to BT's original China deal but was ove https://minutesof.com/q/355a4269-d1c0-4f9b-b5de-9670ab6d1b3d/ https://minutesof.com/q/355a4269-d1c0-4f9b-b5de-9670ab6d1b3d/ “Now at the time that that deal was signed there were strong objections from people like me in the intelligence community. We were totally overruled.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:35 +0000 huawei Brad Gerstner: Gerstner reports Saudi minister said Huawei went from 0% to 40% market share, nearly winning th https://minutesof.com/q/d71c627d-97cf-4a30-974f-0a8923b1034a/ https://minutesof.com/q/d71c627d-97cf-4a30-974f-0a8923b1034a/ “One of the ministers in Saudi Arabia said to me that Huawei had gone from 0% market share to 40% market share and they were months away from making the decision to go with the Huawei stack right? Because they can't be left behind. They have to do something.” — Brad Gerstner, Bloomberg Live Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:44:40 +0000 huawei Dylan Patel: Patel argues export restrictions clearly failed because China manufactured advanced Huawei chip d https://minutesof.com/q/89ea37a4-8221-4263-80d9-10e67c0b12d8/ https://minutesof.com/q/89ea37a4-8221-4263-80d9-10e67c0b12d8/ “The export restrictions have clearly failed because China is still able to manufacture. And what's surprising about the chip that Huawei did is, you know, it's a phone chip.” — Dylan Patel, Hidden Forces Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:00:36 +0000 huawei Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove says China embedded in UK 5G is a serious security problem given Chinese intell https://minutesof.com/q/4ca6b80e-4d08-4f83-baaf-0dabcde2a27a/ https://minutesof.com/q/4ca6b80e-4d08-4f83-baaf-0dabcde2a27a/ “The fact is, if you understand the nature of Chinese leadership, Chinese intelligence, having China embedded in our five gs is a security problem, a serious one.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, The Telegraph Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:10:27 +0000 huawei Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove reveals British Telecom signed a deal with Huawei in 2001-2002 while he was MI6 https://minutesof.com/q/90aeebbf-3621-404b-8082-91edbf4267b2/ https://minutesof.com/q/90aeebbf-3621-404b-8082-91edbf4267b2/ “The problem is that British Telecom signed a deal back in 2001, 2002 actually, whilst I was chief with Huawei. And we became very much involved with this company and entangled with them.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, The Telegraph Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:10:27 +0000 huawei Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove reveals British Telecom signed a deal with Huawei in 2001-2002 while he was MI6 https://minutesof.com/q/69279183-a981-4420-bff4-d573837df60e/ https://minutesof.com/q/69279183-a981-4420-bff4-d573837df60e/ “The problem is that British Telecom signed a deal back in 2001, 2002 actually, whilst I was chief with Huawei.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, The Telegraph Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:10:27 +0000 huawei