Future Huawei products may not be able to use microSD card or SD card

by Jonathan Kemper

As President Trump of the United States has signed a presidential decree that 'prohibits trading of foreign products with risk in information communication,' there is a continuing movement to reject products made by Huawei, a Chinese electronic device manufacturer, in the United States You Google stopped Huawei's Android support , Intel and Qualcomm also stopped trading with Huawei . In addition, Microsoft has removed Huawei products from its online store . Meanwhile, it turns out that the SD Association of the standards group, which formulates standards such as SD card, newly removed Huawei from member companies. As a result, Huawei is virtually unable to support microSD and SD cards on smartphones and notebooks that will be released in the future.

Huawei can't officially use microSD cards in its phones going forward-The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/24/18638539/huawei-microsd-card-sd-association-us-trump-ban

Huawei can't use microSD cards in its smartphones w / ban-9to5 Google
https://9to5google.com/2019/05/24/huawei-microsd-cards-ban/

According to Android Authority's confirmation with the SD Association, the SD Association has removed Huawei from its member companies in response to a presidential decree by President Trump. In addition, Huawei replied to the Android Authority that 'microSD works as before on existing devices'.

Companies that plan and develop products that use the 'SD standard', such as microSD cards used in smartphones and SD cards used in notebook PCs and cameras, etc., are obliged to become members of the SD Association. You As a result, Huawei, who has been withdrawn from the SD Association, may no longer be able to develop electronic devices such as smartphones and notebook PCs that support the SD standard.

Join SD Association-SD Association
https://www.sdcard.org/jp/join/index.html

In addition, the Wi-Fi Alliance , a standards group that develops Wi-Fi standards, has announced that it has 'temporarily restricted' in response to a US presidential decree, Nikkei Asian Review reports. In addition, it is also reported that Huawei voluntarily withdrew from the semiconductor industry business group JEDEC .

However, at the time of writing, the name of 'Huawei' remains in the Wi-Fi Alliance member company column.

Member Companies | Wi-Fi Alliance
https://www.wi-fi.org/membership/member-companies?title=Huawei

In addition, Huawei may adopt its own proprietary 'NM card' for new terminals in case the microSD card can not be used.

Huawei announces 'NM card (nano memory card)' smaller than microSD card-GIGAZINE