Huawei says its new smartphone chip is entirely free of any US-made components
- Huawei's new Kirin 9050 Pro is being called its "most powerful" all-Chinese chip tech giant has ever made
- Huawei is claiming a 55% density gain by 'folding' its chip in half and stacking it instead of shrinking the actual die
- The chip still uses US hardware and foreign technology to manufacture, including ASML scanners and pre-2022 Applied Materials and Lam Research equipment
Huawei has introduced the Kirin 9050 Pro, a mobile processor that it says is fully free of American technology.
The chip powers the Mate XT 2, the third device in the company's tri-fold line, which starts at 19,999 yuan (~$2,980), and went on sale in China on September 12 2026.
The South China Morning Postnoted Huawei is reducing reliance on advanced foreign semiconductor equipment, and this might be what the state-backed AI and chip giant wanted to highlight above all else, even as it refused to mention...
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