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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Chinese giant Huawei is now gearing up to launch its upcoming flagship smartphone — Huawei Mate40 series. Now, ahead of the phone going official, the design of the Mate40 Pro’s camera module has been leaked online.

The image of the upcoming Huawei Mate40 Pro’s camera module has been posted on Weibo, which showcases four camera sensors placed in a circular module while a rectangular element in the middle seems like an LED flash.

There’s a possibility that the phone may be equipped with a triple-camera setup and not a quad-camera setup given that while there are four camera positions in the image, only three on them have diaphragms. This indicates that the fourth element could be for some other type of sensor, like laser focus.

In related news, tempered glass for the protection of Huawei Mate40 series smartphones has also leaked online. From the leaked image, it seems that the series will come with a curved screen for a better screen-to-body ratio.

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Recently, the company’s executive revealed that the Mate40 series could be the last from the company to come powered by the high-end Kirin series chipset as the company will stop making the flagship processors on 15th September after the new U.S. sanctions.

Another report has revealed that the Huawei Mate40 is expected to run the EMUI 10.X version while the Pro model could be the first smartphone from the company to be running the latest EMUI 11, which the company has been working on for quite some time.

The Huawei Mate40 series is expected to come in four models and the Mate40 Pro is reportedly codenamed “Noah”. While nothing much about these upcoming devices is known at this time, the phones are expected to go official next month.

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During China Information Technology Summit 2020, Huawei consumer business CEO Yu Chengdong confirmed that the company will be launching its Mate40 flagship series smartphone sometime this fall.

He has also confirmed that the device will be powered by the company’s own Kirin 9000 SoC, which he claims will be one of the most powerful with support for 5G connectivity, AI processing, and powerful GPU as well as NPU.

Further, Yu Chengdong has also revealed that the Mate40 could be the last smartphone to come powered by the flagship Kirin processor. The ban on Huawei by the United States is set to take effect from 15th September and the executive says that it will be impossible to manufacture chips and thus, the company will cease making flagship chipsets.

Going further, the Chinese giant is planning to make breakthroughs in basic research and precision manufacturing in physical material science. The company continues making investments in materials and core technologies related to new processes for innovation.

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For those who are unaware, recently, the U.S. government announced new rules which require chipmakers using U.S. technology to apply for a license to ship chips to Huawei and other banned entities. TSMC, the contract manufacturer of Huawei chips, confirmed that it has stopped taking new orders from the Chinese giant since May.

It remains to be seen what the future will be for Huawei in terms of mid-range chipsets. The company has already shifted mass-production orders of Kirin 710A SoC based on the 14nm process, from TSMC to China-based SMIC, making it the first pure Chinese chip with independent intellectual property rights.

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