Huawei is being targeted in both the hardware and software front by the US Government. Apart from advocating countries to opt-out of Huawei’s 5G tech, it’s reinforced restrictions meant Huawei had to struggle more to access it’s Kirin Chipsets. However, the company is trying its best to survive in the Global Arena. Amidst this, a report now says that Huawei is on course to launch the next P50 flagships in 2021.
A report by TheElec says that Huawei is planning to launch the next iteration of the P series(Tentative: Huawei P50) in the first half of 2021. The report also says that Huawei is likely to use the Kirin 9000 SoC for the respective flagship P50 series. This contradictory to Huawei Consumer Business CEO, Yu Richard’s earlier statement. He had said that Huawei Mate 40 Series could be the last to sport Kirin SoC.
Besides, the report says that display suppliers of Huawei P50 are Samsung Display and LG Display. Apparently, they are getting ready for the production as of now. Although the orders for P50 are final, the report says that there is no clarity if they will get orders for the next Mate series.
That said, Huawei was a King in both the Home country and Global markets before the tussle with the US. It shipped over 240 million smartphones in 2019 where its P and Mate series played a big role. Precisely, it almost leveled with South Korean giant Samsung by shipping nearly 44 million flagship devices. Additionally, it surpassed the Cupertino Giant Apple in the entire shipment rankings for 2019 taking the second spot.
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Similarly, the company had a great potential going into 2020. But the US Government has spoiled the party for Huawei. Not to mention the latest 5nm Kirin 9000 SoC is the company’s biggest achievement. It has 30% more transistors compared to Apple’s A14 5nm SoC. Anyway, the latest report suggests that Huawei might manage to include the Kirin SoC on the next flagship series but it will be interesting to see if it opts for an alternative solution.
Nevertheless, we will have to wait for a bit to find out as Huawei’s usual timeline for the P series launch falls somewhere between March-April of every year. That said, the recently launched Mate 40 series has been a great hit in China. The devices got sold out in First pre-orders got in just 28 seconds. After this, Huawei faced a huge shortage of devices both in online and offline markets.
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