Huawei has recently officially denied that it will be bringing back its proprietary HiSilicon Kirin series of chipsets for its next gen flagship P60 lineup of smartphones. So here are all the details.
For those unaware, the Chinese tech giant lost access to all US based technology after the US government put it on the trade blacklist, or the Entity List. A year after this, the company was also cut off from its primary chip supplier TSMC. This meant that it could no longer place orders for its proprietary chipset technology for its HiSilicon fabless semiconductor subsidiary. But since then, it shifted to using Qualcomm chipsets like the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoCs, however, these only supported 4G networking and were not 5G enabled.
But recently, rumors surfaced that the brand might be planning on bringing its Kiring chips back in 2023, for its flagship Huawei P60 series. The news arrives from a statement that the company shared on its official Weibo account (a Chinese microblogging website). Here, the brand denies rumors of releasing a new Kirin chipset powered smartphone next year. THe original rumor surfaced earlier this year and claimed that the new P60 models will feature Kirin processors, which were reportedly based on the 14nm process.
Furthermore, it was rumored that China’s largest foundry, SMIC, will be the one manufacturing the chips. In other words, we can expect the flagship P60 series of smartphone to possibly be powered by high end Qualcomm chipsets like the supposed Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Keep in mind that this is still unconfirmed at the moment, so take this news with a pinch of salt.
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