Huawei's latest Pura 70 smartphone, launched earlier this month in China, is powered by the company's latest HiSilicon Kirin 9010 application processor made by China fab SMIC. The chip is based on SMIC's 7nm-class process technology, according to findings by TechInsights reported by Bloomberg. The findings demonstrate that despite the U.S. government's efforts to limit Huawei's ability to develop advanced processors and SMIC to produce them, new chips just keep coming.
Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9010 system-on-chip is produced by SMIC, China's largest contract maker of semiconductors, on its 2nd Generation 7nm-class process technology that is sometimes called N+2, according to TechInsights analysis. This is the very same process technology that SMIC used to make the Kirin 9000s SoC released last August inside the Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone.
