Huawei has been working on HarmonyOS-based laptops for a while now, with an expected launch in 2025. However, a new report suggests the timeline may have been pushed back.
At the same time, we’ve known for a while that Huawei is developing its own PC processor. A report last year hinted that the company’s Kirin PC chip could arrive in early 2025.
Aligning with the rumor, a new Kirin chip for PCs called the Kirin X90, has now surfaced on China’s Information Security Evaluation Center.
Kirin X90 will likely use 7nm fabrication
The listing itself doesn’t reveal much about the chipset, but given Huawei’s limited options, it’s likely built on SMIC’s 7nm process. That means it’s unlikely to match the performance of Apple’s latest M-series chips or even Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X lineup for that matter.
An earlier report, however, hinted that the performance-wise, the SoC is in the same ballpark as Apple’s M2 chip. It is said to be built on Huawei’s Taishan v130 architecture, featuring an 8-core CPU clocked at 2.5GHz (likely its base frequency). The GPU is rumored to be a 10-core unit codenamed “Ma Liang 920”.
The chip is also expected to support up to 32GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory on a 128-bit bus, with 100GB/s of bandwidth. Storage-wise, it could handle up to 2TB of SSD space and come with three USB-4 ports.
Huawei’s push into the PC processor space is a big deal, but whether its Kirin chip can truly compete outside of China remains to be seen.
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