If you prevent your companies from selling in the World's largest consumer market, there will be two main consequences.<p>Your companies will lack the funds because of those lost sales to keep up their R&D and will become uncompetitive. Leading to further lost sales and their inevitable demise.<p>The companies who do sell to that largest market will earn enough funds to keep ahead in their R&D and will outcompete your hindered companies, leading to their inevitable demise.<p>Both consequences mean that Chinese chip companies will destroy the US chip companies, which will follow the US steel companies, textile companies, paper companies, electrical appliance companies, and all those other previous industry companies into oblivion.
It is speculation at this point but it would be really impressive if they go from 7 to 5 in just half a year.<p>However if Huawei put the pieces together - their own operating system and own processors - they could create a banger of a laptop.