2023-09-10 11:24:00
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The latest smartphone unveiled ten days ago by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which has been under US sanctions for four years, has reignited speculation regarding the country’s efforts to catch up in semiconductors.
It’s difficult to see this as a coincidence: it was during the brief stay in China of the American Secretary of State for Commerce, Gina Raimondo, a visit supposed to ease – somewhat – the tensions between the two superpowers, that the telecoms giant Huawei on August 29 unveiled a new smartphone model, the Mate 60 Pro. With, in its innards, a processor made in China capable of using the 5G network – a first.
Even though the equipment manufacturer is one of the leaders in 5G infrastructure, it has not been able, in recent years, to obtain suitable chips for its phones, due to sanctions taken in 2019 by the United States in the name of their national security, and which have continued to harden since. However, with the release of the Mate 60 Pro, experts have been talking at full speed for ten days, particularly in Washington: while sanctions have since extended to the entire Chinese semiconductor sector, how has the country did he succeed in producing a component of this type?
Two generations apart
In this matter, we have to deal with information that is all the more fragmentary as Huawei has been very stingy with technical details on its new product. For the moment, the most precise elements come from the analyzes ordered
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