Huawei, one of the leading smartphone makers, is among the very few companies that make their own mobile processors. However, the company has not limited itself to just mobile chipsets but is also making chipsets for PC under Kunpeng brand.

Now, Huawei and Tencent Games have announced a strategic partnership at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 that was held online amid coronavirus pandemic. Hou Jinlong, President of Huawei Cloud and Computing BG, says that Kunpeng ecology is an important opportunity for the gaming industry.

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Both the companies plan to make several joint innovations and it is said that Huawei will also establish a joint innovation laboratory with Tencent Games. Commenting on the development, Ma Xiaoyi, senior vice president of Tencent Group said: “We are very glad to have reached a strategic cooperation with Huawei and set up a joint innovation laboratory. We will advance the cooperation in mobile cloud games, game engines and other aspects with the advantages of both parties.”

He further adds that for the cloud gaming, the company has created Tencent Cloud Game GameMatrix platform and says that the company will make full use of Huawei Kunpeng processors with powerful computing to build industry-leading, high quality and low-cost mobile cloud gaming solutions.

Huawei executive Hou Jinlong believes that the next ten years will be the golden decade of innovation in computing architecture and the diversified computing architecture innovation requires participation of more developer. At the conference, the company announced that Huawei will invest $200 million to promote the development of Kunpeng.