The United States Commerce Department is investigating whether SMIC illegally obtained US tools to make the Kirin 9000S chip. According to Alan Estevez, a senior official in the department, the chip maker potentially broke export rules, but the situation is still being assessed. The announcement comes after a congressional hearing earlier this week and reports that the Biden administration is considering a ban on 4 more chip makers, including Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), Huawei's provider of the 7nm FinFET SoC. Huawei Mate 60 Pro The Huawei Mate 60 Pro,...
Huawei is preparing to launch the Mate 70 devices in September, revealed insiders. The aim is for the launch to coincide with the iPhone 16 announcement, and the flagships are expected to be in direct competition, at least in China. The information comes at the same time as another report that claimed Huawei sold 30 million units of the Mate 60 devices since they arrived unannounced in August 2023. Huawei Mate 60 Pro Multiple reports revealed Huawei is gaining traction in its home market. Since Google services are banned in China anyway HarmonyOS phones lacking them are at no...
At the 2023 Digital Technology Ecology Conference carrier China Telecom presented a modified version of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro with quantum security. This builds on work from last year when it unveiled a Mate 40E with Quantum SIM support. The new Mate 60 Pro can secure voice calls (VoLTE), messages as well as file transfers. The way it works is that a Quantum Key Distribution algorithm generates a new key before you start a new secure call, then this key is shared with the recipient so that their phone can decode the call (or message or file, etc.). The users must use secure authentication...
For years, Huawei and Porsche Design partnered on special edition Mate series phones and smartwatches but that partnership ended with the Mate 50 RS Porsche Design last year. Huawei is now entering a new phase with its Ultimate Design lineup and the Mate 60 RS Ultimate Design is the first device in the new premium line. Specs-wise, Mate 60 RS Ultimate Edition is identical to the Mate 60 Pro+ – a 6.82-inch LTPO OLED, Kirin 9000s chipset, 48MP + 48MP + 40MP cameras and a 5,000 mAh battery. There are notable visual changes though as the Mate 60 RS Ultimate features a ceramic back...
A teardown of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro left politicians and companies scratching their heads – how did Huawei manage to get a 5G-capable, 7nm chipset? Under current sanctions, this shouldn’t be possible. And yet here it is. Now here is another teardown of the phone, this time in English rather than Chinese. Not that it makes the situation any clearer. Here is the phone’s motherboard uncovered: The Huawei Mate 60 Pro motherboard You can’t see the HiSilicon Kirin 9000s chipset itself, instead you see the SK Hynix RAM chips that sit above it. Those are themselves a mystery and SK...
Several years ago Huawei was cut off from the global supply chain, so the company had to scramble to find home-grown replacements for all the parts needed to build a smartphone. Perhaps the most interesting detail about the new Mate 60 series is that the company managed to restart chipset production – you can find a bit more details about the secretive Kirin 9000s chip in this post about a Huawei Mate 60 Pro teardown. Kunlun Glass (2nd gen) on the front, polyamide fibers for the body That’s not all, though, Huawei has also replaced the familiar Gorilla Glass with Kunlun glass (now...
Following the launches of the Mate 60 and the Mate 60 Pro, Huawei has now brought out the top model in the family, the Huawei Mate 60 Pro+. This is based on the regular Pro with some components dialed up to 11. Huawei Mate 60 Pro+ Let’s start from the top. Huawei is still keeping mum on the chipset that powers the Mates, it’s likely the 7nm Kirin 9000s that was produced in China. Here it is paired with more RAM, 16GB (up from 12GB on the Pro), and 512GB or 1TB of storage. This is expandable via Huawei’s proprietary NM card format (which after all these years still tops out...
Huawei launched the Mate 60 series without much fanfare, and two variants are already selling in China. Now, a third family member is on its way, the Mate 60 Pro+ and a leak revealed its memory versions. The phone will have 16 GB RAM and two storage choices – 512 GB or 1 TB. The same leakster stated the starting price could be CNY8,999, which equals $1,231/€1,150. Huawei Mate 60 Pro+ in a dropdown menu for a vendor The Huawei Mate 60 Pro+ is expected to be the mightiest phone in the lineup, with a class-leading quad-cam setup on the back, packed on a halo island. While there will...
Week 35 brought us lots and lots of new hardware - Huawei surprised the world with the announcement of the Mate 60 Pro and Mate 60. The Pro has a triple dot notch on the front, with a selfie camera and a 3D tOf sensor. Other notable features include a 50MP main camera with a variable f/1.4-f/4.0 aperture, a 5,000mAh battery with 88W wired and 50W charging, and a Kirin chipset (likely the 9000S). The phone is a Chinese exclusive for now. The Fairphone 5 also became official. It has 5 years of warranty and up to 10 years of software support (8 years guaranteed). The Fairphone 5 is the...
Huawei unexpectedly launched its Mate 60 Pro yesterday and the brand has now unveiled the second member in the series with the Mate 60. The non-Pro model shares most of its key specs with its Pro sibling, but there are obviously some downgrades. First off, Mate 60 comes with a single punch hole cutout with the same 13MP ultrawide front-facing camera. Huawei Mate 60 The display on the Mate 60 comes in at 6.69 inches in diagonal (compared to 6.82” on the Mate 60 Pro) and is of the same LTPO OLED variety with a 1,216 x 2,688 px resolution and a 1-120Hz refresh rate. It’s also...