The Huawei Mate 70 chip is not what you think. A recent teardown has revealed it's not a 5nm chip that was rumored.

Huawei's new Mate 70 smartphone contains a chip whose design shows only an "incremental improvement" over its predecessor and, contrary to some expectations, was made using the 7 nanometer (nm) process node,

Huawei's new Mate 70 smartphone contains a chip whose design shows only an "incremental improvement" over its predecessor and, contrary to some expectations, was made using the 7 nanometer (nm) process node, consultancy TechInsights said on Wednesday.

We were expecting to find the Kirin 9100 chipset in the Mate 70 line-up, rumoured to be fabbed by SMIC using 5nm technology,” wrote the authors of the TechInsights report. “However, it seems we have found the Kirin 9020 instead,