Huawei, the Chinese telecoms group, is planning to build a 400-person chip research and development factory outside Cambridge, in the heart of the UK’s silicon chip industry and just a 15-minute drive from the headquarters of Arm Holdings.

The Chinese company is in the eye of a global storm over 5G, the next generation of mobile internet, as the US lobbies for its equipment to be excluded from networks on security grounds. Huawei has denied that it helps the Chinese government to spy on mobile communications.

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