Huawei Technologies' new Mate 70 smartphones feature an in-house designed processor that does not show major improvements, indicating the Chinese tech champion's ongoing struggles over US sanctions that restrict its access to advanced semiconductors,

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,

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.

In a sign that China’s ability to develop new tech might be slowing, the flagship Huawei Mate 70 Pro smartphone appears to have only a chipset update, rather than one made with a smaller fab process. According to TechInsights, which analyzed the Mate 70 ...

The executive claims this is a testament of the company's true autonomy. Huawei launched the Mate 70 series two weeks ago, and today, the company