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,

The newly introduced Mate 70 Pro Plus phone runs on a processor built with the same 7-nanometer technology used in its Mate 60 Pro last year, according to a teardown of the device by researchers at TechInsights. The chip, Kirin 9020, is designed by Huawei and once again produced by Shanghai’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.

Huawei has unveiled the top-tier models in its Mate 70 series, the Mate 70 Pro+ and Mate 70 RS, both designed to offer enhanced durability, performance,

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,