Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications giant, was reeling from US sanctions in 2020, cut off from key chip supplies. Last year, though, it stunned Washington with a new smartphone featuring an advanced semiconductor. Now, the company is poised to reach another milestone. Huawei’s autumn launch event, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday in Shenzhen, will be … Read more
Huawei Technologies’ distributors have started giving customers details of the processor used inside the company’s flagship smartphones, even though the US-sanctioned tech giant remains mum on the subject. Staff at Huawei stores in Beijing now inform consumers that the chipset in the company’s flagship Mate 60 series is the HiSilicon Kirin 9000s, an in-house design, … Read more
Huawei Technologies’ new Pura 70 smartphones, powered by a chip designed by its in-house fabless semiconductor unit HiSilicon, are set to help the Shenzhen-based tech champion regain the top position in China’s smartphone market at the expense of Apple. The Pura 70’s system-on-a-chip (SOC) – an integrated circuit that combines all the necessary components on … Read more
With that infusion, Shenzhen Habo Technology Investment Partners – established in 2021 by Huawei and Habo Investment – last Thursday raised its registered capital to 7.98 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) from 7 billion yuan previously, according to data from Chinese business registry platform Tianyancha. Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment on … Read more
The Ascend 910B is believed to succeed the Ascend 910, which was released by Huawei in August 2019, three months after it was put on a trade blacklist by the US Commerce Department. The chip can compete with Nvidia’s A100 in terms of powering AI algorithms, according to Dylan Patel, chief analyst at San Francisco-based … Read more
