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Amid all the difficulties, will Huawei's new chips be able to be produced and used commercially in the company's latest phones?
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A few years ago, Huawei was poised to become the world's largest smartphone maker, but after being placed on the Entity List by the United States in 2019, the company's original U.S. supply chain no longer has access to its systems, preventing Huawei from competing with companies including Google. some of the key suppliers to do business with.
Just a year later, changes to U.S. export rules have made things worse for Huawei, as it prevents the company from getting cutting-edge chipsets from foundries that use U.S. technology. These new export rules will prevent Huawei from replenishing supplies of its latest chips after running out of stockpiles. To prevent these U.S. bans from affecting its sub-brand Honor, Huawei sold the business unit for more than $15 billion two years ago.
Huawei has been unable to make 5G phones due to US ban
Unable to get a cutting-edge 5G-capable chip for its flagship P50 phone released last year, Huawei used a 4G-only version of the Snapdragon 888 chipset. That being said, it's made using the 5nm process node, which means there's a ton of transistors inside the chip that can deliver strong performance and energy efficiency. The lower the process node, the higher the number of transistors that can fit inside the chip.
With that in mind, an insider posted an interesting message on China's Weibo and social media sites about the next iteration of the photography-focused P-series flagship, according to Huawei Center. According to the insider, the P60 phone in 2022 will use the 14nm Kirin 9100 chip. The Kirin chips are designed by Huawei's HiSilicon unit, which was TSMC's second-biggest customer after Apple before the U.S. placed Huawei on the Entity List.
Despite being produced on the 14nm process node, the insider added that the performance of the Kirin 9100 chip will be comparable to the 5nm chipset. Huawei has yet to comment on the rumors. We recommend taking this rumor with a grain of salt. 14nm chipsets cannot deliver 5nm performance. For comparison, the version of the A9 chip Samsung used in the 2015 iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus used Samsung's 14nm process node, which contains 2 billion transistors, while the current 5nm A15 Bionic on Apple's phones integrates 15 billion transistors .
There's also no mention of whether the 14nm Kirin 9100 will support 5G, although that also seems unlikely, and the only reason we're seeing Huawei adopt a 14nm chipset on the new flagship is to take back some control over its own integrated circuit production.
Some Mate 50 Pro units will be powered by the 4G-only Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chipset.
The latest news is that the Mate 50 series will be unveiled as soon as next month. Due to the US ban, Huawei no longer releases two flagships (P series and Mate series) every year, but decided to release only one flagship phone per year, alternating between P series and Mate series models. Following the release of the P50 last year, the Mate 50 is expected to be released in 2022, possibly as soon as next month.
According to reports, the high-end version of the Mate 50 Pro will be powered by a 4G version of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset. The other models will have the 4G-only Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, while the Mate 50 RS will have the Kirin 9000S chip. The series is expected to have Harmony OS 3.0 pre-installed.
Huawei is no longer among the top five global smartphone makers. In 2019, the company shipped 240.6 million phones. Due to the U.S. ban and the sale of Honor, the company shipped just 35 million phones last year, down 81 percent from a year earlier, according to a report.
Can Huawei make a comeback? It will require "US hands off Huawei's throat", something the new US administration has not seen in 16 months with the same view as the previous one, and that could change , that is, the US sanctions against Huawei may be loosened.
Huawei increases investment in chip R&D
Huawei's annual investment in R&D is 20% of its revenue, making it the company with the highest R&D expenditure in the world. Of course, this part of the cost also includes the cost of purchasing patents and technologies.
According to Huawei's financial report, in 2021, Huawei's annual investment in research and development expenses will account for 22% of the annual revenue, as high as 142.7 billion yuan, which is nearly 30 billion yuan more than the net profit of 113.7 billion yuan. That is to say, Huawei not only invested all the profits it made into research and development, but also invested a huge sum of 30 billion yuan to support research and development.
It can be seen that Huawei, as a high-tech company, attaches great importance to research and development. Just after Huawei HiSilicon became a non-revenue department due to sanctions, Huawei stated that HiSilicon must be raised even if it does not make money, and Huawei HiSilicon has been upgraded to Huawei's first level. Important department, because Huawei believes that HiSilicon is Huawei's most important technology research and development department.
Moreover, Huawei will continue to invest heavily in R&D in 2022. It is reported that this year's R&D budget is 120 billion yuan. Of course, after years of huge investment, Huawei has also achieved fruitful results.
The first is that Huawei has made breakthroughs in the independent research and development of chip architecture. In addition to the self-developed chip underlying architecture based on the open source RISC-V architecture, Huawei also provides the latest open Kirin community, which provides developers with A wealth of tools and a smooth platform jointly build the underlying architecture of the domestic computer ecosystem.
And not long ago, Huawei also announced a technology patent for chip stacking, which provides a practical and practical method for the new idea of area-for-performance chip manufacturing. It can support my country's manufacturing industry to use less advanced technologies and processes to obtain performance comparable to advanced chips.
Up to now, Huawei's self-developed chips cover various fields, and have achieved outstanding results in many fields such as automobiles, screen drivers, TVs, WiFi, and imaging. In particular, the self-developed NPU chip will be used in the latest return of the Mate50 series of mobile phones.
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