Last week, Huawei introduced its new flagship Mate 60 Pro, showing that the company is returning to control over the development and production of its devices. Recall that since 2019, when Huawei was on the verge of overtaking Samsung and becoming the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, the United States announced the company a threat to national security and introduced a number of restrictions.
The key point was the introduction of Huawei to Entity List, which is why the company could not receive components from the United States and work with Google. In response to this, Huawei accelerated the development of the Harmonyos operating system, which replaced Android from Google. Subsequently, Huawei was deprived of the opportunity to receive high-tech chips from any company using American equipment for their production.
It unexpectedly became known that the new Mate 60 Pro is equipped with the Kirin processor produced by the Huawei – Hisilicon division. This chip has a 12-core architecture, including two Cortex-A34 nuclei, six Cortex-A78Ae nuclei and four Cortex-A510 cores. According to Antutu tests, its performance was 699.783 points.
However, there is a mystery: how did Huawei create such a high-performance chip? The only manufacturer of microcircuits in China, which could carry out Huawei orders, is SMIC. But this company has restrictions in technologies that do not allow competing with the most advanced TSMC and Samsung factories. However, there are assumptions that Huawei found ways to circumvent the use of photolithography in a deep ultraviolet (EUV), using optoelectronic plates and other innovations.
Perhaps in the near future Huawei will reveal the secret of its success and tell you how she managed to overcome the technological barriers established by many countries.