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The name of Huawei\u2019s chipset, which was designed by semiconductor<\/a> design subsidiary HiSilicon<\/a>, was found prominently displayed in screenshots shared online by Pura 80 users after a system update of the handset.Information about the processors used by Huawei on 5G smartphones, including the Mate 60 Pro<\/a> and Mate 70 series<\/a>, was previously uncovered only via third-party teardown analyses, without any official confirmation from the Shenzhen<\/a>-based company.<\/p>\n

Privately held Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Kirin 9020, first seen in Huawei\u2019s Mate 70 smartphones last year, was made by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp<\/a> (SMIC) using the advanced 7-nanometre production process, according to a report by Canadian research firm TechInsights published in December.\"HuaweiHuawei Technologies\u2019 Richard Yu Chengdong presents the Kirin 990 5G system-on-a-chip at the IFA industrial trade show in Berlin on September 6, 2019. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The name of Huawei\u2019s chipset, which was designed by semiconductor design subsidiary HiSilicon, was found prominently displayed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3688,304,891,39865,844,39869,39863,4755,25914,39866,39862,39861,39867,696,2306,39860,39868,28855,8711,2334,39864,86,56,54,55,741],"class_list":["post-78218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-5g","tag-apple","tag-china","tag-china-central-television","tag-google","tag-harmonyos","tag-hisilicon","tag-huawei","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-idc","tag-kirin-9020","tag-mate-60-pro","tag-mate-70","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile","tag-pura-80","tag-richard-yu-chengdong","tag-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corp","tag-shenzhen","tag-smartphones","tag-techinsights","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}