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A well-known tipster has just shared some very interesting information. He claims that Huawei is preparing 3 chips, and that it’s planning to compete with the Apple M2 chip too. So, at least one of them will be a direct competitor.
Huawei is looking to compete with the Apple M2 SoC, as it’s working on 3 new chips
He also included the ‘confirmed’ tweet, to his original post, so he’s feeling very confident about this. Huawei seems to be back in the SoC game, as it recently surprised us all and released the Kirin 9000s.
That processor fuels the company’s new high-end handset, the Huawei Mate 60 Pro. The chip itself is about as powerful as the Snapdragon 888, a two-year-old processor. Still, this is a huge step forward for Huawei, as it also supports 5G.
As many of you know, Huawei could not use 5G processors for years due to the US ban. Well, it somehow managed to do this in collaboration with SMIC. Huawei doesn’t plan to stop there, though, not at all.
Unfortunately, Revegnus did not release any information about Huawei’s upcoming chips. We don’t know what segments they are aiming at, aside from the Apple M2 competitor, of course. Huawei seems to be making strides in that regard.
The US government wants to know how Huawei made a 7nm Kirin 9000s in face of a ban
Huawei is doing so well that the US government wants to know how SMIC produced a 7nm Kirin 9000s chip, despite the ban. The US export rules are in place still, and only one company in the world makes a machine that employs the extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) needed to make this happen. ASML agreed not to ship any EUV machines to China, so the US wants to know how is this possible.
Now, making a 7nm smartphone SoC without an EUV machine is possible, it’s very difficult, though. The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports that the US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, wants to know everything about this chip. They’re skeptical.
This story is far from over, it seems.