Huawei gears up for launch of new flagship smartphone model Mate 70 next month: source

Huawei gears up for launch of new flagship smartphone model Mate 70 next month: source

Huawei Technologies is expected to launch its new flagship smartphone Mate 70 next month, as a resurgence in its premium handset business intensifies its rivalry with Apple and major Chinese competitors, according to local media reports and a supply chain source familiar with the matter. If confirmed, the launch will offer fresh evidence that the … Read more

TSMC tech in Huawei’s AI chips raises questions about ‘porous’ supply chain

TSMC tech in Huawei’s AI chips raises questions about ‘porous’ supply chain

“US long-arm sanctions on China’s semiconductor sector have proven to be porous,” said Arisa Liu, a research fellow and director at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. The discovery has caused a scramble to find explanations for what happened. TSMC has since halted shipments to an unnamed customer after discovering one of its chips supplied … Read more

Tech war: TSMC chips found in Huawei’s AI processors open firms to fresh scrutiny

Tech war: TSMC chips found in Huawei’s AI processors open firms to fresh scrutiny

A Canadian firm’s teardown report of an artificial intelligence (AI) offering by Huawei Technologies has raised fresh questions about whether the Chinese tech giant skirted US sanctions by using a chip made by the world’s most advanced fab, a development that could lead to further scrutiny. TechInsights, an Ottawa-based semiconductor industry research firm, published the … Read more

Mate XT vs iPhone 16: Huawei’s ‘tri-fold’ smartphone expected just after Apple event

Mate XT vs iPhone 16: Huawei’s ‘tri-fold’ smartphone expected just after Apple event

Huawei Technologies is expected to debut the world’s first “tri-fold” smartphone within hours of Apple’s iPhone 16 launch event on September 10, teeing up a head-to-head competition as the Chinese technology giant snaps up more market share at home. Huawei announced the event on Monday with a post to microblogging platform Weibo, featuring a Z-shaped … Read more

Huawei offers rare price cut on latest smartphones after strong showing in shopping festival

Huawei offers rare price cut on latest smartphones after strong showing in shopping festival

Huawei Technologies has made a rare price cut for its Pura 70 smartphones, three months after the series hit the shelves, following a strong performance by the brand during China’s 618 midyear shopping festival. All models in the Pura 70 series are on sale for a nearly 10 per cent discount, meaning the top-of-the-line Ultra … Read more

Tech war: Huawei faced difficult days as global smartphone sales plunged, executive says

Tech war: Huawei faced difficult days as global smartphone sales plunged, executive says

“My team wasn’t able to start operations,” Yu said. “As the global leader in 5G technology, we didn’t even have 5G [smartphones] ourselves. Our days were incredibly difficult.” Huawei Technologies’ Richard Yu Chengdong shows off the company’s Mate 50-series smartphones at the product launch on September 6, 2022. Photo: Weibo His candid, live-streamed recollection on … Read more

Huawei smartphone chips no longer top secret as stores have green light to tell customers

Huawei smartphone chips no longer top secret as stores have green light to tell customers

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 smartphone sales see biggest growth in 618 shopping festival, but Apple stays ahead

Huawei smartphone sales see biggest growth in 618 shopping festival, but Apple stays ahead

Huawei sales jumped 42.4 per cent during the one-month 618 sales period that started May 20, according to Counterpoint, which attributed the rise to continued strong demand for the company’s latest handsets, including those from the Mate 60 and Pura 70 series that run on China-made chips. The company also offered the smallest price discounts … Read more

Huawei’s flagship Pura 70 smartphone has highest ratio yet of China-made components as firm seeks tech self-sufficiency

Huawei’s flagship Pura 70 smartphone has highest ratio yet of China-made components as firm seeks tech self-sufficiency

With its latest flagship smartphone, Huawei Technologies has pushed ahead in cramming in ever more China-made components, according to a recent tear-down analysis of the Pura 70 line, as the tech giant looks to overcome US sanctions and go head-to-head with Apple on its home turf. The Pura 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro Plus and … Read more

Japanese researcher denies conducting teardown analysis of Huawei Pura 70 smartphone amid speculation on component sources

Japanese researcher denies conducting teardown analysis of Huawei Pura 70 smartphone amid speculation on component sources

A Japanese electronics consultancy has denied that it conducted a teardown analysis of Huawei Technologies’ new Pura 70 smartphone, after a widely-circulated Chinese social media post claimed that the research firm found mostly locally-sourced components in the device. “I never commented on the Pura 70 to anyone because we have not received the product,” said … Read more