NaterTypo:

"Samsung Electronics and Huawei SK Hynix* will be joining the efforts of the US government a"

AssimilatorThe South Korean chaebols are not going to stand idly by and be used as pawns in a trade war that they have no part in. I imagine that SKH is waiting for the results of the November election to determine their course forward... if the USA makes a sane choice, SKH can reasonably expect this idiotic trade war to end soon after, and they can afford to bleed a little cash until then.

If not, SKH and the other chaebols are going to take a long hard look at whether it makes financial sense to continue operating in the USA, or just pull out and continue to trade with China. Of course, if that happens, the only real losers will be US consumers... again.

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VerpalPersonally I found it rather unlikely that chaebols will choose China instead of access to US technology, and large chunk of western market.
Even if chaebol cease operation in US, due to the fact that their fab also use US technology, it will be difficult to procure completely homebrew replacement, that doesn't rely on US or its allies.
That being said, current SK government is pretty pro-china, with sufficient capital investment from SK and Chinese government, I suppose it is a possible scenario, albeit unlikely.

Worth noting that in this hypothetical scenario, Samsung will still have to compete with Huawei (and numerous ODM/OEM) for Chinese market, unless there are major incentive from China, this scenrio is highly unlikely.

watzupkenThe odds of Huawei surviving is getting slimmer and slimmer with these news every other day. One can argue that they can rely on China technology companies, but would you buy a Huawei phone with 45nm or even 28nm SOC? The fact that Chinese phone makers are the ones pushing out cutting edge hardware year after year, and the lack of from Huawei will likely mean a dead end for them. In fact with major suppliers cutting ties with them means they will be out/ on life support system (supported by the government) in the hardware space.

FlankerThey will survive alright, their mobile phone division isn't really that profitable comparing to their cell towers business. They probably earn a bunch of money from their 5G patents too

watzupkenBased on what I have been reading, the technology that they are getting cut off is not just going to impact their mobile phone business, but generally anything tech hardware related, they are going to be crippled. Only question is to what extend they are getting crippled.