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Apple promised they would be happy by sweeping the iPhone in China. Until Huawei made things clear

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For years, the iPhone was the best-selling mobile phone in China despite the efforts of Asian manufacturers. Xiaomi, Huawei, OPPO and Vivo were fighting to create a product at their level (or even superior in some key aspects, such as the camera), achieving privileged positions in a ranking in which Apple used to dominate. It’s not like that anymore. Again, king. Huawei has been in first place in shipments within its country for more than two years. This past 2025, despite having lost 1.9% in annual growth, it is still slightly above the iPhone company. Specifically, 16.4% market share compared to Apple’s 16.2%. Apple grows 4% year-on-year, an increase motivated by the great commercial reception of the new family iPhone 17. In fact, Apple has already surpassed Samsung and has become the first manufacturer worldwide, despite being the second in China. Yes, but. Although Huawei is reigning with an iron fistthe data is not enough to assert that this will continue to be the case next 2026. There has never been such a fierce fight between the main Chinese manufacturers. Huawei: 16.4% market share. Apple: 16.2% market share. Vivo: 16.2% market share. Xiaomi: 15.4% market share. OPPO: 15.2% market share. Minimal differences in quota that will translate into a constant dance of positions during 2026. There is a clear message here: Huawei has not been able to be stopped in its native country. The Huawei case. Vivo, Xiaomi and OPPO maintain a close relationship with Qualcomm, the giant in charge of providing the best high-end Android devices with the most powerful chips on the market. Meanwhile, Huawei has had to adapt to playing with more restrictions than the rest: has had to develop together with SMIC their own processors He had to create a software ecosystem completely independent of Android Almost completely redesign your supply chain Make an even more ambitious bet on your domestic market, where life without Google is the norm The surprise. For years, we have seen Chinese mobile phones as great high-end proposals, but with some important disadvantages compared to Western rivals (fewer years of support, mediocre video recording, “crazy” specs without any sense of assembly…). This has been changing for a while now.. Today (saving the subjectivity of which software we like more or less), Chinese mobile phones are the most ambitious hardware proposal overall. They have the best batteries on the market, by far. On a photographic level, they are beginning to move dangerously far from Apple, Google and Samsung. The hardware set usually far exceeds what we see in the rest of its rivals. Chinese brands are very focused on their expansion throughout Europe, and it shows. not so fast. The Asian market is a great mirror in which to see how the fight between large technology companies progresses, but its particularities are still there. On a global level, at least currently, Apple and Samsung seem practically unreachable. Only Xiaomi, with a 13% share worldwide (compared to Apple’s 20% and Samsung’s 19%), plays in the double-digit league. Vivo and OPPO, with a share of 8%, have not moved their position since 2023. By 2026, consultancies like Counterpoint expect a year of moderation and a poor growth forecast. The global price crisis in DRAM/NAND memories will force an imminent price increase. Whoever manages to contain the dam will win this year. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Chinese mobile phones conquered the market by dividing into a thousand different brands. Now they are doing just the opposite.

They have dismantled the latest Huawei phones and what they have found is bad news for the US: 57%

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May 2019, this was the date the United States declared that Huawei was “a threat to national security”thus becoming the first major victim of the trade war against China. Without being able to use American technology, the company was mortally wounded, or that’s what we believed so. Today, Huawei has not only achieved return to the top of mobile phones in Chinahas also become the banner of technological independence. 57%. It is the percentage of Chinese-made components that we can find in the Huawei Mate 70 Ultra launched in 2024 and the Huawei Pura 80 Ultra launched this same year. They tell it in Nikkei Asia where, in collaboration with the Japanese firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutionshave disassembled both models to analyze the internal components. It is the result of six years of efforts to become independent despite the vetoes. The turning point. The US veto forced Huawei to look for alternatives and create new national supply chains. In 2020, the percentage of Chinese components in Huawei flagships was only 19% and in 2023 it increased to 32%. Reaching 57% in 2024 represents a jump of 23 points, which is said to be early. The countries where most of the components that Huawei managed to supply came from were Japan, the United States and South Korea. Processor. It is the Kirin 9020, the first manufactured entirely in China and most critical component of all. It is a 7nm chip manufactured by SMIC. To achieve the 7 nanometer process they would have used multi-pattern techniquesquite a technical feat considering that they do not have access to the newer machines, but rather have done so by “tweaking” old ASML machines. More components. There are more key parts that have managed to be manufactured entirely in China, such as the RAM memory, which is produced by ChangXin Memory Technologies, or the storage, produced by Yangtze Memory Technologies. For OLED screens, almost all the components are Chinese, specifically from the company BOE Technology Group. Challenges. The 2019 veto was a near-death blow for Huawei; sales fell dramatically and there were moments when we had serious doubts about its continuity, until it began to resurface. Being able to manufacture critical components in China is an enormous achievement, but there is a reality and that is that, technologically, Huawei is several years behind. To put it in context, the Kirin 9020 that they launched in 2024 is at the level of the Snapdragon 855 or the A12 Bionic launched in 2018. The challenge now is to manage to cut positions and Huawei is already doing it. The Huawei Mate 80 Pro mounts the Kirin 9030which has managed to cross the 7nm barrier and reach 5nm. Furthermore, recent leaks indicate that They have managed to copy an ASML SVU machine which would allow them to go even further, although at the moment it is not ready to produce commercial chips. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Huawei is coming back. And not everyone is prepared for what is coming

Setting up a smart home is a nightmare. The solution is Huawei is to set it up for them

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The promise of the smart home where everything works automatically without a problem sounded great, but the reality is that it is still a real chaos of incompatibilities and most annoying bugs. Even if we have all the devices from the same brand, there is still the part of assembling them, hiding cables… Huawei has the solution, although it doesn’t exactly come cheap. The complete pack They count in Panda Daily that Huawei has launched an offer of smart-home solutions that come in various packages with different devices and at various prices. The packages are designed to be installed in new construction homes and also for installation in already built homes. With these options, Huawei seeks to offer a comprehensive solution under the umbrella of your HarmonyOS system. In total they offer six packs, three for new construction homes and three for existing homes. The cheapest is the ‘starter pack’ for already built houses and costs 1,200 euros in exchange and includes the control hub and some essential functions such as lighting, air conditioning and curtain control. The most expensive packages are those installed in newly built homes. The most basic costs more than 3,500 euros in exchange and has WiFi 7 connectivity throughout the house, control of lights, curtains, air conditioning, smoke sensor for the kitchen and smart lock. The premium package goes up to almost 12,000 euros and adds features such as AI cameras, ambient lighting strips, and speakers throughout the house. All packs include installation and Huawei is committed to completing it in just 24 hours in the case of existing homes. The announcement is only for China, where Huawei had already launched similar solutions in the past. The chaos of home automation In Spain there are solutions provided by installation companies, but We do not find similar proposals through brands with smart-home devices such as Samsung or Xiaomi. Typically, we are the users who buy the devices and install them at home ourselves. Mounting cameras and lights is quite simple, but if we want deeper automation, for example controlling blinds or blinds, things get complicated and many times we have to go to an installer. Then there is the issue of compatibility. In my house I have two cameras, several lights, a robot vacuum cleaner and an automatic cat feeder. It’s not much, the problem is that each thing works with a different app and, although I can bring everything together in Google Home, the reality is that there are devices that it does not recognize, others that are deconfigured if the WiFi goes down and in general it is quite cumbersome. The standards like matter They promised to unify this chaos, but to this day it still hasn’t taken off. This same year they analyzed the topic in XDA Developerswhere they criticized that there are still many devices that do not support it and those that do sometimes lose functions compared to native integrations, as happens with Philips Hue. Returning to Huawei’s proposal, I don’t think the solution should be to buy a package worth several thousand euros and tie ourselves to a brand forever. However, the fact that it sounds like a much more convenient option than its alternatives It says a lot about the state of the connected home landscape. Image | Huawei In Xataka | Home automation and leaving for a month: Ana Boria has put all her efforts to the test just before the expected trip

The US bans Chinese drones and turns DJI into the new Huawei. It’s an absolutely crazy idea.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States has decided ban all drones and critical components of these vehicles that have been manufactured in foreign countries. In addition to this, he has vetoed any team of communication and video surveillance from the largest Chinese manufacturers, and there is one name above all others: DJI. It’s another shot in the foot for the Trump administration. what has happened. Does almost a decade that some government officials in the US were asking for a veto on drones manufactured by Chinese companies, and that veto is now official. The FCC decision It will prevent this body from authorizing drones or critical drone components, something that is essential to be able to import them into the United States. The measure clearly affects DJI, which becomes the new Huaweialthough there is another firm, Autel, that will also be greatly impacted by the decision. Both come to form part of the so-called “covered list”. The reason is the usual one: to protect national security. It only affects (for now) future drones. The existing drones They will not be affected for the moment by the veto and their users will be able to continue using them. Stores that had models in their inventory and warehouses will be able to sell them normally, as the FCC’s action focuses specifically on future models. Thus, the decision is not retroactive, but that could change in the future and affect many models. What DJI says. Those responsible for DJI indicate in The Wall Street Journal that the company is prepared to be audited and highlights that independent analyzes have indicated that its products are completely safe. “DJI’s data security concerns are not based on evidence and instead reflect protectionism, contrary to the principles of an open market.” Drone pilots cry out to the sky. There are nearly half a million certified drone pilots in the United States, and in this segment between 70 and 90% of commercial drones used by local governments and hobbyists come from DJI. The measure therefore has an enormous impact on this entire industry in the United States. Many of these pilots are collecting drones and components to mitigate the impact of the measure. bad future. Greg Reverdiau, co-founder of the Pilot Institute in Arizona, conducted a survey in which 8,000 pilots participated. 43% indicated that the veto would be “extremely negative” and “potentially a cause of business closure”, and nearly 85% said they could stay in business for up to two years due to the prospect of not being able to access future DJI equipment and components. As this expert said, “People don’t buy DJI drones because it’s Chinese, they buy it because it’s available, very affordable, and capable.” DJI has no competition. And less, American. Eric Ebert, owner of a construction firm and user of these drones, explained the problem. “I’m American through and through. I drive a Chebrolet truck. But American drones can’t compete.” Ebert has a team of seven drone pilots who monitor wind turbine and solar panel installations. These weeks they have not stopped hoarding DJI drones and components “knowing what was going to come our way in 2026.” Protectionism…One of the companies that will benefit from the measure is Brinc Drones, a Seattle firm that sells them to more than 700 state agencies. Blake Resnick, its founder, explained that “it is impossible to compete with DJI unless you are subsidized by the state.” …and rear doors. In November XTI Aerospace, which makes helicopters, acquired a DJI distributor called Drone Nerds and also Anzu Robotics, which makes drones by licensing technology from DJI. As part of the agreement, the drone component manufacturing firm Unusual Machines invested 25 million. Guess who is a shareholder and board member of Unusual Machines: Donald Trump Jr, President Trump’s son. Image | jonas In Xataka | China conquered us with its cheap drones. Now the price of their pieces is skyrocketing for a reason that is not coincidental.

Huawei is not the only one seeking to challenge Nvidia. There are four other “little dragons” knocking on the door

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“AI” may be one of the words of the year, but “funding round” is a concept that wouldn’t be far behind in the competition. The unicorn is a OpenAI that, if in 2024 it prepared for exceed 100 billion dollarstoday It is bigger than Coca-Cola or Samsung. He has achieved it thanks to money injected by third partiesand Chinese companies want to follow the same strategy as American companies with only one goal in mind: erase the United States from the equation. It’s the ‘Delete A’ plan. Biren. Talking about Chinese artificial intelligence is talking about deepseek and a few other models, but above all hardware companies like Huawei. Their GPUs are the ones that are helping for the Chinese AI field to flourish, and within those GPU companies is Shanghai Biren Technology. As we read in SCMPhas begun a financing round that seeks to raise more than 620 million dollars. Founded by Nvidia and Alibaba veterans, Biren has to his credit BR100one of China’s promises of raw performance to power the demanding data centers needed to train the artificial intelligence. And, unlike others that have opted for Chinese markets, Biren has chosen Hong Kong to attract international capital more easily. They are not the only ones in this race. Moore Threads. If Biren has Nvidia veterans on his team, Moore Threads is directly led by Zhang Jianzhongwho headed Nvidia in China. Perhaps, it is China’s most accurate response to Nvidia itself, and the reason is that it seeks replicate Jensen Huang’s business model combining 3D graphics, for a growing Chinese ecosystem of gamers, and GPUs for AI. To their credit they have the recent architecture Huaganga series that promises 50% more computing density compared to the company’s previous generation of chips, while being ten times more energy efficient. That efficiency is key to keeping AI operating costs at bay, something of vital importance for a China focusing on cheaper artificial intelligencebut functional as soon as possible. And saying that it is Nvidia’s great Chinese rival is not shooting with blank bullets. On the one hand, they are Huashan chips focused on massive clusters of up to 10,000 cards to train LLMs. On the other hand, the chips Lushan that feature hardware ray tracing for the video game market. New Moore Threads GPUs support major gaming APIs little dragons. When Moore Threads debuted on the Shanghai stock market earlier this month, Its shares skyrocketed 500% on the first day, demonstrating that the Chinese market wants to have “its Nvidia”. Biren and Moore Threads are two of the legs of the table. The other two are MetaX (formed by former members of AMD and focused on computing power) and Enflame (a company backed by Tencent and who develop AI systems in the Cloud for Tencent itself). Are known as the “four little dragons of AI” (although other startups are known the same), four of the most promising GPU startups in China that, together with Huawei that has taken giant steps with its AScend 910Dthey have only one objective. “Delete A“Delete the United States. In 2022, when it was still recent the veto of Huawei by the United States in it escalation of the trade war between the US and China, China’s State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission launched Document 79. It was an initiative to encourage the creation of technology that would turn its hardware companies into heavyweights in the global industry. However, there was something else. According to Wall Street Journalthis document has an unusual level of secrecy and an underlying idea: delete United States. Hence the ‘Delete A’ or ‘Delete America’. As? Making all state-owned companies operating in strategic sectors (such as finance, telecommunications, defense or energy) replace foreign software and hardware with domestic alternatives. When? Before of 2027. To do this, national options must be given, and hence the boost to Huawei and startups like these “little dragons.” Although it has also given headaches to companies that have not been able to access Nvidia chips such as Nvidia H20 because they must opt ​​for native solutions, less powerful or optimized in some aspects. Chinese sovereignty. And this development is not just a whim of China, but a necessity. Huawei, Enflame, Moore Threads and Biren, among many others, are on the Entity List of the US Department of Commerce. This prohibits trading with Western companies and access that foreign technology, although more recently the United States has loosened the rope, allowing Nvidia can sell its H200 chips to China… under certain conditions. It is a clear movement resulting from “if China is going to have the technology anyway, let’s take advantage while we can.” And it is because Huawei is working on a open alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA technologythe real ace up the company’s sleeve. Because it is no longer about technical muscle, but about the “language” that the AI ​​speaks. And when China manages to develop this “interpreter”, that is when they will have taken the real leap forward in the development of their tools and in the search for that sovereignty. Images | BirenMoore In Xataka | Big tech is starting to pawn grandma’s jewels for AI: it’s a worrying symptom

Dreame seeks to become the third largest in China along with Xiaomi and Huawei. Far away from wanting to be the new Dyson

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Dreame is a Chinese manufacturer that has crept into the European conversation based on muscle. Muscle for the home, specifically. Founded in 2015, it soon emerged as a serious rival of Dyson thanks to its numerous vacuum cleaners of all kinds and beauty devices. Now it has been filtered the Dreame E1, the company’s first mobile with which they seek to replicate the strategy of the “Apple from China”. They no longer want to be Dyson, they want to be Xiaomi. The Dreame E1. In September, Dreame dropped the bomb: robot vacuum cleaners They were going to move into the smartphone segment and electric cars. Since then, Dreame’s phone had kept a low profile, but it recently appeared in the European database EPREL with the name ‘W5110’. We have to wait for the official announcement, but it seems that it will have a AMOLED screen 6.67 inches, a 108 megapixel main camera, a 4,850 mAh battery and only 33 W charging, as well as seven years of system updates. This would aim to satisfy European regulators. Divide the world. Its features are not revolutionary and the sketches look like those of a Samsung Galaxy S25but it is a first step. No price or key details such as the processor or something so on everyone’s lips like the RAM memorybut in an internal communication, the CEO of Dreame pointed out high: they want to be one of the three tigers of consumer technology. The other two would be Huawei and Xiaomi, companies that have been shaping an ecosystem in which a multitude of home devices are controlled by a single brain: the mobile phone. In a scenario in which we can have our house full of Dreameit is a vision with all the sense in the world. 1+8+N from Huawei. Many devices, a single brain Xiaomi, the birthplace of Dreame. To understand this strategy, it is essential to understand the model that Xiaomi has been developing for more than a decade. The company began by selling its own products, but also making investment strategies in promising startups, like Dreame. These companies developed a product and gained access to Xiaomi’s distribution network, but also to its name. A rice cooker from an unknown company does not attract attention. One from that same company, but under the name Xiaomicalls much more. This way, the risks are also lower. And, precisely, Dreame manufactured vacuum cleaners that they formed part of the Xiaomi ecosystem while simultaneously operating its own catalog. It is something that explains the rapid growth of many Chinese brands, something impossible, or very difficult, if they had operated independently from the beginning. Roborock too was in that Xiaomi ecosystem. Meteoric. The rise they have achieved since their independent birth has been brutal. According to some analyses, Dreame is the third manufacturer of robot vacuum cleaners with a share of 11.3%. They only have Ecovacs ahead with 13.6% and Roborock with 19.3%. In Europe they are very well positioned, reporting great growth in revenue during the first half of this year, and the consequence is what we saw during the presentation at the IFA a few months ago. The mobile phone will be the control center, that N+1 that we have seen in companies like the aforementioned Xiaomi or Huawei, and at the German fair they announced that, along with the consolidation of their personal care range, robot vacuum cleaners, vacuum cleaners, lawnmower robots and pool cleaner, will launch in Spain in the coming months televisions, air conditioners, dishwashers and kitchen appliances. They are already at itwith small appliances, accessories and even smart lighting. In this photo the ecosystem is that of Xiaomi. It could easily be Dreame’s future. Image | Xataka Ford already said it. It is, as we said, a carbon copy of the strategy that has worked so well for Xiaomi. They entered with competitive technology at a good price to gain market share and customer loyalty, and now they want to expand the ecosystem with all types of connected devices. It is a strategy within the reach of not all companies, but it is drawing the attention even of people like Jim Farley. Farley is the CEO of Ford and, in his quest to understand why chinese cars are winning toast to Westerners, he has been driving the Xiaomi SU7. Apart from other characteristics, what impresses him most is the ecosystem: With your cell phone you control the car, and from the car you control the house. Ambition. Given this, the fact that a robot vacuum cleaner manufacturer launches a mobile phone is not a surprise and responds to a strategy in which manufacturers want us to have a house full of their devices, controlling everything from a single app. And, if possible, from your mobile. And it is not surprising if we look at the investment figures in research and development. Dreame has 5,000 employees and 60% of its staff is dedicated to R&D. They invest 7% of their annual income in this segment and it is evident that Dreame wants to stop being the Chinese Dyson. It wants to be the new Xiaomi. Images | HuaweiXataka, Dreame In Xataka | A Chinese company you don’t know makes 35% of all microwaves in the world. Probably yours too

Huawei Mate X7, features, price and technical sheet

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Huawei has just expanded its range of smartphones with a new foldable. It is about the Huawei Matea foldable type that relies on a very slim design and a high-quality camera system. Last year we analyzed the Huawei Mate and he left the bar very high, let’s see what news his successor brings. Huawei Mate X7 technical sheet Huawei Mate dimensions and weight Unfolded: 156.8 x 144.2 x 4.5 mm Folded: 156.8 x 73.8 x 9.5 mm 236 grams Internal Screen 8 inch OLED Resolution 2416 × 2210 pixels, 412 dpi LPTO panel 1 – 120 Hz refresh rate External Screen 6.49 inch OLED 2444 x 1080p resolution, 412 dpi LPTO panel 1 – 120 Hz refresh rate Processor Huawei Kirin 9030 Pro Memory 16 GB Storage 512GB rear cameras Main: 50 MP, variable aperture f/1.49-4.0, OIS Wide angle: 40 MP f/2.2 Telephoto lens: 50 MP f/2.2, OIS, 3.5x optical zoom, digital up to 100x Front Camera Outdoor: 8 MP f/2.4 Indoor: 8 MP f/2.2 Battery 5,600 mAh Huawei SuperCharge: 66W wired and 50W wireless Reverse wireless charging at 7.5W Operating system EMUI 15 based on Android Connectivity 4G LTE WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, 2 × 2 MIMO, HE160, 8 Spatial-stream Sounding MU-MIMO Bluetooth 6.0 GPS NFC USB-C (USB 3.1 Gen 1) Others IP58/59 Price 2,099 euros An ultra-slim design with traditional touches The Huawei Mate It comes in two colors, red combines with a gold metal frame and black opts for a much more discreet silver metal. It stands out above all for its thinness of just 4.5 millimeters when deployed and 9.5 millimeters when folded. The camera module has a peculiar shape with straight and round sides, and a fairly wide frame that makes it stand out even more. For the camera, Huawei brings us a triple system with a 50 megapixel main sensor and variable aperture ranging from f/1.49 to f/4.0. It is accompanied by a 40-megapixel ultra-wide angle and a 50-megapixel telephoto with 3.5x optical zoom. For the front cameras (because yes, in a foldable we have two), we have 8 megapixel sensors. Regarding the screens, on the outside we have a 6.49-inch OLED panel and on the inside a 8-inch flexible OLED. The two screens have a density of 412 dpi so they are equal in terms of sharpness and also offer a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. Power and autonomy The chip in charge of giving life to the Huawei Mate X7 is the Kirin 9030 Proannounced just a few days ago. It is a chip with nine cores and 14 threads, with a Maleoon 935 GPU. It is accompanied by 16GB of RAM and comes in a single version with 512GB capacity. Regarding the battery, Huawei has managed to integrate two batteries totaling 5,600 mAh within its new foldable. It is also compatible with Huawei SuperCharge fast charging that allows 66W wired and 50W wireless charging. Versions and prices of the Huawei Mate X7 The Huawei Mate X7 will arrive in two colors (red or black) and a 16 GB RAM version with 512 GB storage. It will begin to be sold in Spain from January 28, 2026 at a price of 2,099 euros100 euros more expensive than the previous model. Images | Huawei In Xataka | Huawei lost to Google, Qualcomm and TSMC. What he didn’t lose was something more important: his reputation.

Huawei is building its own alternative ecosystem to CUDA. If it succeeds, NVIDIA will have a serious problem

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When talking about NVIDIA, almost all the focus is on the hardware: the H100Blackwell, racksenergy consumption, nanometers… It is understandable, but it is a mistake. The defensive moat – the moat– NVIDIA is not the hardware. Is CUDA. CUDA is not an add-on to the chip, it is the de facto standard upon which most of the AI ​​code on the planet is written, optimized and debugged. Changing GPUs without changing CUDA does not exist. And switching from CUDA means rewriting years of work. That is why it is a moat. Why is it important. Huawei’s big bet is not to “make a Chinese H100.” It is to build a path for the developer to reach Ascend without feeling like you are changing planets. The restrictions are accelerating it. Exports have split the world in two: An ecosystem that revolves around NVIDIA. And another that China is trying to lift against the clock. In that second, Huawei is not just playing chips: is playing “ecosystem”in AI and outside of it. And therein lies the nuance: you can be years behind in chips and still reduce dependency if you get the software to swallow. In detail. Huawei is attacking the problem on three fronts, with a pragmatically Chinese logic: not to replace everything at once, but to open shortcuts. Native stack (CANN + MindSpore). It is your “pure” alternative: your own environment and your own tools to get the most out of Ascend. The cost today is high, there are complaints of instability, the documentation is rather messy, and the community is much smaller. PyTorch support. This is the most strategic move. Huawei does not try to make the world love its framework– Try to ensure that the world doesn’t have to leave PyTorch. torch_npu acts as an adapter to run PyTorch models on Ascend, but with one problem: it is not native and suffers with every PyTorch change. If PyTorch advances and your backend lags behind, the developer notices. Portability via ONNX. Here Huawei looks for its best window: inference and deployment, not training. ONNX works as a bridge format: you train where you can (often NVIDIA) and deploy to Ascend. It’s a less romantic and more useful approach: if shortages hit, moving inference to local hardware is an immediate relief. Between the lines. The real story is that Huawei is trying to replicate the “trick” that made NVIDIA great: turning its hardware into an experience. That’s why the tactic that explains everything appears: putting engineers in the client’s home to migrate code and optimize it. It is not scalable as a business model, but it is scalable as a transition model: you buy time while you mature tools, libraries and support. And there is another derivative: if China gets enough teams to adopt Ascend out of necessity, over time that can become habit and then infrastructure. Not because it is better, but because it is already integrated. Yes, but. Huawei has two limits that cannot be fixed with marketing: Hardware improvement rate: Roadmap analysis suggests relative stagnation and a gap that could widen, not close, if NVIDIA continues to accelerate cycles. Off-chip bottlenecks: memory (HBM), tools and industrial capacity. You can add “worse” chips, but you need to make a lot of them and build a lot of systems. And now what. If this movie continues, we will see two clear signs: Less hype of chips and more real migration stories: how many computers have moved to Ascendwith what frictions, with what performance losses. Less obsession with training in Ascend and more normalization of the hybrid pattern: I train where I can, I deploy where I must. NVIDIA will continue to be CUDA. Huawei is not “a chip.” It is an escape strategy. And the restrictions are the fuel that is making it inevitable. In Xataka | With HarmonyOS NEXT Huawei has achieved something incredible. Neither Samsung, Microsoft nor Mozilla achieved it Featured image | NVIDIA, Huawei

Huawei has a patent with which to manufacture 2nm chips. The only problem is that it’s just a patent.

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Huawei has just applied for a patent in which a new and unique process of advanced chip production. The patent focuses on improving one of the limitations of the technology of deep ultraviolet photolithography (UVP) to try to compete in this way with the extreme ultraviolet machines (UVE) to which China still unable to access. There are, however, many uncertainties here. The patent. Huawei formally submitted the technical documentation in June 2022 to the Chinese patent office, allowing the invention to be “protected” since then. The detailed content of their study was made public in January 2025, but It is now that it has come to light. The patent is only applied for, not granted or granted. The patent office is examining the application to determine if it meets the requirements. Why is it important. This patent tries to address the limitations of the so-called edge placement error (EPE, Edge Placement Error) in the advanced interconnection process used when manufacturing advanced chips. The method discovered makes it theoretically possible to use “metal spacings” smaller than 21 nm, even when using deep ultraviolet (UVP) technology instead of extreme ultraviolet (UVE), which is the most advanced photolithographic technology today… and to which Chinese manufacturers like Huawei do not have access. If it achieves its objective, the firm could have access, for example, to chips that would theoretically compete even with chips made with 2nm photolithography. Metal spacing? That term (metal pitch in English) refers to the minimum distance that exists between the metal lines that form the interconnections within the integrated circuit or, in this case, the chip. These lines carry power and data signals between the transistors, and that metal spacing is extraordinarily small for advanced nodes. The objective of the patent is precisely to allow the manufacture of these lines with a spacing of less than 21 nm. This gives rise to a possible process that could compete with the 2nm UVE photolithography used, for example, by TSMC. The important word there is “could.” Edge Placement Error (EPE). EPE is the error that occurs when a pattern on a chip is not placed exactly where it was intended by the chip design. The closer that metal spacing is, the smaller the EPE margin must be to prevent the lines from touching and causing a short circuit. At this scale it is incredibly complex to solve this problem, and Huawei’s patent precisely proposes a way to achieve it. Supervitaminizing “old” lithography. What makes this method possible is that UVP photolithography, less powerful and advanced than UVE, can be used to compete with it. This method would allow “jumping” the limits that this process now faces, and which normally had many difficulties in going beyond 21 nm. A double hard mask process of two materials and a special patterning scheme are introduced that theoretically allow us to go below 21 nm. and even 5 nm which are already very complicated to achieve with EUV. In short: China could achieve advanced chips without the need for use the most advanced ASML machinesto which you do not have access. But. Although the technique is apparently striking, there are two big problems here. The first and most important is that this is just a patent and that does not mean that the process can be transferred to reality. The difficulties in doing so are enormous, and that leads us to the second problem: the effectiveness of production would probably be very low and the yield (process success rate) would be greatly affected. That is to say: of all the chips theoretically produced with this technique, only a small part would be valid, which would waste a huge part of the investment. In Xataka | In its race to make advanced chips, China has tried to copy ASML. It’s going wrong

Huawei lost to Google, Qualcomm and TSMC. What he didn’t lose was something more important: his reputation.

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Last week were the Xataka Awards 2025. Stella Li, global vice president of BYD, took the Xataka Legend. He Galaxy S25 Ultra It swept the super high range. Freepik was crowned as best Spanish technology company. It was a night of proper names, drinks and conversations with readers. But There is a prize that, for those of us who spend a lot of time in Xatakaas workers or as readers, has a special weight. Not because of its glamour, but because of what it represents. The Community Award is not decided by any jury. There are no internal debates. You, the readers, decide with your votes. It is the device that you liked the most, without filters. In fact, it is the only one that is not delivered by any employee of the house, but rather by members of the community who represent it on stage. In the image that heads this article, three of them with Cristina Isidoro, PR Manager of Huawei in Spain, who collected the award. Because this year he won it Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro. And when I saw the result, I smiled slightly: it was more than just a reward for a well-made smartwatch. It was pure symbolism. Look at the historical list of winners of this award: Almost all, Chinese devices or devices with a Chinese soul that share a pattern: focus on value for money, practical innovation, and in some cases, arriving wanting to break molds. But among all of them, Huawei is the only one that did not arrive yesterday promising a lot for little. It is the only one that was already in the world elite, disputing the throne with Samsung and in fact about to snatch it awaybefore the United States decided to use it as a pawn in its trade war. Because Huawei has not conquered the perception of premium quality by offering more gigabytes for fewer euros. It conquered it by being, for years, simply a great option. He P20 Pro It was the first mobile phone with a triple camera that really worked. The Mate 20 Pro was an unapologetic technical beast compared to the high-end greats. Their MateBook laptops have been worthy rivals of the Surface. And their GT watches already stood out for batteries that lasted weeks when Apple asked for a charger every night. They weren’t cheap. They were good. And that difference, in the technology market, is abysmal. Then 2019 arrived. EntityList. American veto. Goodbye Google, goodbye Qualcomm, goodbye TSMC. Sales outside China plummeted and the Western narrative was unanimous: Huawei was dead. Without the Google ecosystem, without access to the supply chain, it was impossible to survive in this business. But no one explained to them that it was impossible. Instead of giving up, they built their own universe. HarmonyOS on more than a billion devices. Kirin Chips own, then Ascend for AI. Huawei Cloud growing in Asia, Africa and Latin America. They didn’t beg to go back to Google Play like we might perhaps have expected them to do. They simply built another entire ecosystem. Without one word higher than another. At the beginning of the month I was in China and was able to try several of their devices, including some that just left there. The premium feel is real. And something that we do have here, the GT 6 Pro, is not a gadget 150 euros that promises too much and falls halfway. It is a watch in the 400 euro range that performs very well. and the community of Xataka has passed sentence with his prize. That doesn’t happen by chance. Xiaomi shines in value for money. Realme and Oppo play there. Nothing has its aesthetic indie. But Huawei is the only Chinese brand that, when you mention it, the European consumer automatically thinks of “serious quality”, without the asterisks that others have. And she did it right after they tried to destroy her. The Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro is a great watch. But winning the 2025 Community Award means something else: It is the recognition of the only Chinese brand that has come out of the perception low cost without giving up its origin. It is the prize that, in a way, China had been pursuing for decades. Respect without conditions. And it has been won by a company that they tried to annihilate. Sometimes vetoes don’t kill. They forge legacies. Featured image | Xataka In Xataka | The LG OLED Signature AI T4 is the best television of the year for a simple reason: we are saying goodbye to the black monolith

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