Huawei chip architecture that folds active logic layers vertically on top of one another so signals travel shorter distances between processing blocks.
Huawei is putting its consumer business behind phones on its own chips as deliveries of Huawei-powered cars slide, down 29% in September. Outside China it now sells only several million phones a year, the base from which Richard Yu wants to win back overseas share.
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Qualcomm signed a multi-year patent cross-license with Huawei, a deal Huawei links to more than $6.9 billion in expected licensing value. Whether a U.S. chipmaker now pays for chip designs Huawei built under sanctions depends on terms neither company has published.
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Huawei's Mate 90 launch gives the Kirin 9050 Pro only to its top editions, with a Kirin 9035 in the Pro and a Kirin 9030 in the standard model. Richard Yu said smartphone chip capacity remains tight and is shared with Huawei's Ascend AI chips.
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Huawei's own paper puts transistor density up 53.5%, and TrendForce's relay of it does check out, but the number with money attached is Bernstein's call that Nvidia's China share falls from about 40% to 8% next year.
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Huawei's 55% density gain over the Kirin 9030 Pro was already public in July. The new ChinaXiv paper adds the power and thermal case for folding logic vertically, and nobody outside the company has checked it.
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