Honor, the Huawei subsidiary, has just launched the Honor X10. The smartphone is a mid range 5G handset and sported the HiSilicon Kirin 820 SoC. After the launch conference, Zhao Ming, President of Honor’s Business unit, revealed that the company will now be looking towards MediaTek‘s 5G processors for its upcoming and future smartphone launches.
In the post launch interview, the senior executive stated that the Chinese company has had good relations with MediaTek, and seeks to strengthen this cooperation for the foreseeable future. Zhao said that while the Honor X10 featured the company’s proprietary Kirin 820 SoC, the future of the processor family in Honor smartphones is uncertain and that future models will likely ship with 5G chipsets from MediaTek.
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The President believes that 5G networking is the next step towards a new generation of smartphones and that MediaTek with its affordable lineup has helped in bringing the barrier of entry lower than ever before. In other words, the chipmaker has helped make the newer and faster bandwidth more popular with its Dimensity chip series. For those unaware, recent sanctions from the US government has cut off chip supply from TSMC to Huawei, causing the company to look into other alternatives.
Furthermore, Zhao Ming said that MediaTek has been a partner of Honor on numerous occasions for previously launched products and that the future will see wider adoption of their chipsets across the company’s smartphone offerings. The official also stated that these chips will also be directly optimized for Honor’s custom OS and other features to offer the best and consistent user experience to its customers.
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