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Huawei gets go ahead for US$1.2bn UK centre
//Huawei said Thursday it will invest US$1.2 billion in a chip research and manufacturing centre in Britain that has been strongly opposed by the United States... it received planning permission in Cambridge, eastern England, to erect a 50,000 square metre compound over 3.6 hectares.
//The announcement comes in the middle of a UK government review of its contested decision to plug the firm's technology into Britain's speedy 5G data network.
//British security agencies are more worried that some of Huawei's equipment has vulnerabilities that could be potentially exploited by nefarious state actors and hackers.
//The firm said its new centre in central England would not manufacture anything liable to US sanctions.It said the project would create 400 local jobs – a promise that the local planning authority took into account when it gave Huawei the formal go-ahead.
Source: RTHK, (26-Jun)
#UK #Cambridge #Huawei #ChipResearch
Huawei gets go ahead for US$1.2bn UK centre
//Huawei said Thursday it will invest US$1.2 billion in a chip research and manufacturing centre in Britain that has been strongly opposed by the United States... it received planning permission in Cambridge, eastern England, to erect a 50,000 square metre compound over 3.6 hectares.
//The announcement comes in the middle of a UK government review of its contested decision to plug the firm's technology into Britain's speedy 5G data network.
//British security agencies are more worried that some of Huawei's equipment has vulnerabilities that could be potentially exploited by nefarious state actors and hackers.
//The firm said its new centre in central England would not manufacture anything liable to US sanctions.It said the project would create 400 local jobs – a promise that the local planning authority took into account when it gave Huawei the formal go-ahead.
Source: RTHK, (26-Jun)
#UK #Cambridge #Huawei #ChipResearch