Huawei released the latest flagship mobile phone Mate 60 Pro last week, and then set off a whirlwind of inspection around this mobile phone chip design and technical background in China.Does Huawei's new mobile phone born mean that China has broken through the "stuck neck" in the chip field?
What is the technology of Huawei's latest mobile phones?
The world -renowned semiconductor industry observation agency Techinsights dismantled this phone, saying that it is equipped with a new type of Kirin 9000S chip, which is made by Chinese enterprises SMIC and adopted SMIC's most advanced 7 -nanometer chip technology.
Techinsights Analyst Hamson told Reuters that the two -thirds of the Huawei new mobile phone chip is made by China, and the ratio of two or three years ago was only one -third.
Network evaluation data also shows that the download rate of Huawei new mobile phones is equivalent to the mainstream 5G mobile phone.
How big is the most advanced technology?
Apple in the United States has used 7 -nanometer chips in the iPhone since 2018. The latest iPhone15 series that is about to launch this month is reported to use TSMC's 3 -nanometer chip.
To move from 7 nanometers to 3mm, it still needs to go through difficult research and development process.Analysts also believe that China is currently maintaining the gap between 2 to 2.5 nodes and the most advanced chip technology. Based on the speed of technological progress in Western countries, it takes at least three to five years to catch up.
Where does Huawei's chip come from?
Whether China breaks through the "stuck neck" is to answer whether the chip of Huawei's new mobile phone has achieved a Great Leap Forward for scientific and technological capabilities, or use inventory transformation, or to avoid sanctions;Is China produced in power?
The dismantling report of theTechnicals states that the chip carried by Huawei's new mobile phones is made by SMIC, and both Huawei and SMIC are sanctioned by the United States.Without avoiding sanctions, this means that SMIC has made major breakthroughs in the process technology and capacity of 7 -nanometer chips, and Liang Mengsong, a SMIC, who was once a TSMC R & D team, believed that it was an important promoter behind the scenes.
However, before the market of Huawei new mobile phones, the US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) warned that Huawei was secretly building semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the name of other companies in China to avoid US sanctions.
Some analysis also speculate that it does not rule out that Huawei has stored some components before the comprehensive sanctions of the United States.However, this also means that Huawei's new mobile phones are likely to be unable to produce in large quantities.
Caixin quoted industry insiders that the current production line of Huawei chips is not high, which limits Huawei's self -developed chip output. In addition, because the most advanced semiconductor equipment is unable to use, Huawei chips may be lower than Apple and Qualcomm in terms of performance.Flagship chip.
Will Huawei return to the 5G market to upgrade China -US core warfare?
US National Security Consultant Sarawan on Tuesday (September 5) said that the U.S. government wants to understand the accurate composition of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro mobile phone processor, while emphasizing that the United States will continue to restrict technology in the way of "small courtyard high walls".Essence
After selling new mobile phones in Huawei, some members of the United States also called on the United States to stop all technologies to Huawei and SMIC.
It is foreseeable that the United States will further increase the alert to China, while China will sprint on the road of chip ’s localization under the inspiration of Huawei, and the Sino -US scientific and technological war is expected to be fierce for a long time.
