Chinese giant Huawei has announced that the company will be holding a press conference on 3rd September during IFA 2020 in Berlin. While the company has not revealed what it plans to announce, everyone knows what to expect.
A new report claims that at the event, along with the Huawei Mate40 series flagship smartphones, the company is also expected to unveil the latest Kirin 9000 flagship chipset, which could also be the last flagship smartphone SoC from the company.
The upcoming Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 9000 is manufactured by TSMC using the 5nm node process. It could become the world’s first 5nm chipset, launching ahead of the similar chipset from Qualcomm and Apple. It remains to be seen what the features of the Kirin 9000 SoC are and how it fares among other flagship offerings.
As for the Huawei Mate40 series, the company is expected to launch three smartphones in the lineup with model numbers OCE-AN00, NOH-AN00, and NOP-AN00. It is said that the Mate40 has a 6.5-inch FHD+ display while the Pro model has a 6.78-inch QHD+ screen. The phones will run the Android operating system and support 5G connectivity.
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Recently, the United States tightened restrictions on Huawei and put around 70 of its affiliates on the Entity List, requiring them to have special permission from the government to carry out business.
Thus, Huawei’s contract chipset manufacturer TSMC has been prevented from taking new orders from the Chinese company. The Taiwanese company will completely halt HiSilicon chip production from 15th September.
As per the reports, Huawei is now taking matters into its own hands. The company is expected to start its chip manufacturing process, at least partly, by the year-end and compete with industry giants like Samsung, TSMC, Intel, and more. Given that manufacturing semiconductors is a complicated and expensive process, we will have to wait and see if Huawei manages to pull it off.
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