Chinese tech giant, Huawei, has been navigating murky waters since the US ban on its products in May. In light of this, the firm’s US-based research and development arm, Futurewei Technologies, has gradually been reducing its contact with its parent company since the US blacklisted Huawei.
According to a Reuters’ source, Huawei employees are banned from US-based research and development arm offices, whose own employees have been moved to a new IT system, all this on top of banning them from communicating using the Huawei name and/or logo. Nonetheless the source says, it will still be owned by Huawei.
Several universities have halted their research partnerships with the firm in light of the blacklisting. Futurewei may be distancing itself from Huawei to avoid a similar fate.
Futurewei employs hundreds of people at its offices across Silicon Valley, Seattle, Dallas and Chicago. The research firm has supposedly filed north of 2,100 patents in the fields of 5G cellular networks, telecommunications, and video and camera technologies.
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Until the blacklisting, Futurewei staff identified as Huawei employees. The research arm did not have a separate website or brand.
