Huawei‘s smartphone business is soaring, edging out Apple to emerge as the second-largest smartphone maker after Samsung in 2018. Samsung must continue watching its back as the Chinese company continues to make efforts to maintain its growing leadership in the industry. One aspect where Huawei has made tremendous progress is in the aspect of the chipset and according to industry sources, we should expect more innovation from Huawei.

Huawei is said to be looking to maintain its lead over Apple and is targeting shipments of 250-260 million units in the year. This projection is buoyed by shipments of its high-end P- and Mate-series models and the entry-level and mid-tier Honor sub-brand models. In addition, Huawei has made significant strides in the aspect of the development of its chipset and is looking to further improve on them. Huawei’s chipset accounts for over 50% of the chipset solution market for 4K TVs in China. The company consolidated on this lead recently when it unveiled its chipset solutions for 8K TVs at CES 2019 to cash in on the rising popularity of 8K TVs. The company’s 8K TV solutions have also seen some patronage from not only Chinese TV manufacturers but also from Japan-based Sharp.

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Apart from building on the successes of the Hisilicon chipset for mobile phones, Huawei has also launched its Ascend series AI chips and Arm-based Kunpeng series server CPUs, in addition to TV chips. A recent data by Gartner showed that Huawei’s spending on semiconductor products have increased by 45% YoY to over US$21 billion in 2018. This ranks the company as the third largest buyer of IC chips globally last year, trailing Samsung Electronics and Apple but ahead of Dell. This underscores the company’s growing investments in chipset manufacturer. Huawei still doesn’t sell its Kirin chipset to other OEMs. If they start doing that, the sky can only be its starting point in the race to dominate the industry.

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Like Xiaomi, Huawei also has a number of accessories in addition to its smartphone lineup. This year, the company unveiled a brand new Honor Router just after it announced the Mediapad X2 tablet at MWC. Now, the same router is available for sale on a Chinese e-commerce website for just 188 Yuan ($30).

The Honor router comes with a dual-band design (2.4G / 5G) and a dual-core Kirin processor clocked at 1GHz. The processor is based on Cortex A7 cores. The router also has its own Wi-Fi acceleration engine. The company has made sure that the Honor router is compact as it measures just 90 × 90 × 90mm.

The router comes in white color and is well designed and built to last. The company specifically focuses on its anti-brute security and Wi-fi isolation features which makes the Honor router one of the most secure routers in its price range. However, you won’t have to sacrifice on the speed, thanks to its dual-band support.

The company is directly targeting to compete with the Xiaomi router that was announced last year. Xiaomi recently said that it sold over 1 million Mi routers already, so it will be interesting to see if Huawei’s Honor routers manages to reach anywhere close to this figure.

So what do you think about the new Honor router? Is it good enough to compete with Xiaomi’s Mi router?

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