(China Daily) Inspur Information, Schenzhen, has stated that in about two weeks after a temporary stop, the US-chip giant Intel Corp is to resume its component shipments and has said its business operations are currently running as normal.
Commenting on Intel, she told Inspur that it had temporarily stopped shipments in order to comply with the new export regulations of the US government.
Intel said that the move is temporary and would last for some items for less than two weeks, whereas other product shipments are resumed in a matter of days. The Commission said it would resume shipments as soon as possible, while ensuring that US legislation is complied with.
Inspur is China's biggest manufacturer of servers. According to data provided by market research company Gartner, this accounted for 37.6% of Chinese server market and 9.6% of the world server market during the first quarter of this year.
Inspur was listed by the US government on 25 June on 20 Chinese companies with alleged military links, prompting Intel to stop components.
Inspur Information financial disclosure demonstrates that Intel is the leading provider of chips for the company. In 2019, Inspur spent on the procurement of components from Intel more than $17.89 billion (Dollars 2.53 billion).
Analysts said that Intel will not have a substantial effect on the latter's business if it resumes shipments to Inspur in two weeks.
Server manufacturers have a history of storing core components. This year, Xiang Ligang, director general of the Info Consumption Alliance, a telecommunications sector advocate, has stated that demand for cloud computing is rising since COVID-19.
However, Inspur 's incident once again highlights the increasing uncertainty in China's supply companies, with Washington increasingly pushing to tackle them and the emergence of new US exporter restrictions, analysts said.
The U.S. Government has been using every means to distort the normal international commercial cooperation, said Bai Ming, a senior researcher at China Academy of International Trade and Cooperation, Beijing.
Since last May, Washington has put dozens of Chinese tech companies including the Huawei telecommunications manufacturer and the Hikvision supervision maker on its entity list, limiting them from buying US technologies.
The latest list of 20 Chinese companies that the government of the United States said are associated with Chinese military units also included Huawei and Hikvision.
