Huawei’s latest smartphone uses improved China-made chip, report shows
The Kirin 9030, the chip that powers Huawei Technologies’ latest flagship Mate 80 series handset, has been manufactured by China’s top foundry SMIC with an improved version of 7 nanometres, which is still behind TSMC and Samsung, Canadian research firm TechInsights said.
The Kirin 9030 is manufactured using SMIC’s N+3 process, a “scaled extension” of its previous 7 nanometer (N+2) node, TechInsights said in a report published on December 8.
