Huawei Technologies has apparently raised the use of components made in China for its newer smartphones. The news arrives as the company steers away from US made parts due to the US sanctions.
According to a NikkeiAsia report, the Chinese tech giant has doubled Chinese components in recently launched phones. Now, the company’s devices house over 60 percent of parts made in its home country. For those unaware, the company had to replace US made parts as the company was placed in the US government’s Entity blacklist which barred it from using many crucial American technology. So now, the brand has been working on using locally manufactured components more parts shipped from overseas.
Nikkei worked with Tokyo based research specialist Fomalhaut Techno Solutions and tore down a Mate 40E model. This handset is 5G enabled and was found to feature Chinese made parts that accounted for about 60 percent of the total value of all components. In other words, it is about twice as much as its predecessor, the Mate 30. Although, Huawei is still using certain key semiconductors like US made chips it still has in its inventory. However, this also means that the company is still reliant on this technology and could face further decline due to its current situation.
Notably, Fomalhaut found that a major part of the the rise in Chinese made components share arrived as the company used BOE Technology Group‘s display over a Samsung Electronics panel. The display alone accounts for nearly 30 percent of the overall value of a smartphone. Other notably Chinese parts include Mate 40E’s antenna switch, power control chips, and others like the fingerprint sensor and battery.
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