- Huawei’s latest high-end phone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory storage chip and an improved chip processor, pointing to the progress China is making towards technology self-sufficiency.
- iFixit and TechSearch International examined the internals of Huawei Technologies’ Pura 70 Pro and found a NAND memory chip likely packaged by Huawei’s in-house chip unit HiSilicon, along with other components from Chinese suppliers.
- Huawei’s high-end smartphone market resurgence amid U.S. sanctions symbolises growing trade tensions and China’s tech self-reliance push.
Huawei’s latest high-end phone showcases increased use of Chinese suppliers for components like flash memory storage and chip processors, indicating China’s progress towards tech self-sufficiency.
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Hints of China’s technology self-sufficiency
Huawei’s resurgence in the high-end smartphone market after four years of U.S. sanctions is being widely watched by both rivals and U.S. politicians as it has become a symbol of growing U.S.-China trade frictions and China’s bid for technology self-sufficiency.
The firms also found that the Pura 70 phones run on an advanced processing chipset made by Huawei called the Kirin 9010 which is likely only a slightly improved version of the Chinese-made advanced chip used by Huawei’s Mate 60 series.
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Huawei declined iFixit’s comment
“While we cannot provide an exact percentage, we’d say the domestic component usage is high and higher than in the Mate 60,” said Shahram Mokhtari, iFixit‘s lead teardown technician.
“This is about self-sufficiency, all of this, everything you see when you open up a smartphone and see whatever is made by Chinese manufacturers, this is all about self-sufficiency,” Mokhtari said.
Huawei declined to comment.
