According to sources close to Huawei who testified on condition of anonymity, the Chinese giant could well start producing 5G smartphones again.
Huawei could have its own 5G chips made in China. A real thunderbolt in the small world of technology. Indeed, the company has been under a US embargo since 2019, which has so far prevented it from sourcing technological components. essential to make 5G smartphones.
Huawei is no longer allowed to source 5G chips from US manufacturers or use Android as Google revoked its license. Concretely, this means that the company can no longer install either the Google Play Store or the applications in its suite on its smartphones. A huge crippling handicap at a time when the vast majority of smartphone users in the world have adopted Google’s integrated services such as Gmail in their daily habits. Xanax Similarly, the company must limit itself to producing 4G smartphones as demand for 5G grows.
Huawei can now produce its own 5G chips, but there’s a catch
According Reuters, the company would have found a way to have its own 5G chips manufactured by local companies. Indeed, despite US restrictions, Huawei has remained the world leader in 5G equipment. It has perfected its chip production tool and is preparing to revive the manufacture of 5G smartphones with the help of SMIC, a cross-country skier from Shanghai. For a company that recently declared itself in “survival mode”, this announcement is therefore a real breath of fresh air for it.
Doubts remain, however, about the reliability of the 5G chips produced by Huawei. The latter will depend on the number of smartphones that the brand can market. However, the yield, a measure of the percentage of chips actually usable once they leave the factory, remains very low, at 50%. By comparison, TSMC is now aiming for 80-90% efficiency for a chip like the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Not sure under these conditions that Huawei floods the global 5G smartphone market anytime soon.
