Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 11 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon.
introduced the Mate 60 Pro by surprise at the end of August, everyone was stunned when a teardown revealed that the phone was powered by a Huawei-designed Kirin 9000s chipset built by China's largest foundry, SMIC, using its 7nm node. U.S. lawmakers and officials
In 2020, the U.S. expanded its export rules to prevent foundries using U.S. technology to make chips, from shipping cutting-edge silicon to Huawei without a license. The last two flagship series that Huawei offered before the Mate 60 Pro, the Mate 50, and the P60 lines, were powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset tweaked to work on 4G signals. In other words, the only way to connect to a 5G signal with those phones was to buy a special third-party case.
But the Mate 60 Pro offers 5G connectivity as a native feature for the first time since 2020 thanks to the Kirin 9000s chip. Analysts have beenand how SMIC could produce such a chip without access to an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine. This machine etches extremely thin circuitry patterns on silicon wafers to allow for the placement of billions of transistors.
Using some back-of-the-envelope math, @RGcloudS figures that Huawei could have socked away 142 million Kirin 9000E and Kirin 9000 5G chipsets in a three-month period. He adds that there is no way Huawei can target sales of 40 million units of the Mate 60 Pro line if it was counting on production from SMIC's N+2 7nm process node which had a yield under 20%.
Keep in mind that this is just one person's opinion of what happened. Also file away in the back of your mind that the Kirin 9000 from 2020 contained 15.3 billion transistors, very close to the 16 billion inside the A16 Bionic but 24.2% shy of the 19 billion inside the A17 Pro.A discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative.
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