The event, held in a stadium and watched by millions online, was expected to see Huawei break its silence on the smartphone, which has been hailed by Chinese state media as a sign the firm had overcome U.S. sanctions that since 2019 has cut its access to advanced chipmaking tools and crippled its smartphone unit.
Further, the report mentioned that invoking national security concerns, the US administration included Huawei to a list of entities in 2019 that prevented it from obtaining high-end chipmaking equipment from the country. No Evidence Chinese Conglomerate Huawei Can Produce Advanced Phone Chips at Scale: US.
Huawei recently started selling a phone called the Mate 60 Pro containing a chip that analysts believe was made with a technology breakthrough by SMIC.
Sk Hynix: Last week, the chipmaker said it opened an internal investigation into how its memory chips ended up in a new smartphone made by Huawei, after Bloomberg News reported that the South Korean chipmaker s DRAM LPDDR5 and NAND Flash memory are used in the Chinese tech company s latest smartphone Mate 60 Pro.