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HiSilicon

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Chairman / President

Ren Zhengfei

CEO / Managing Director

Ren Zhengfei

CFO / Finance Director

Meng Wanzhou

Industry

IT / Tech / Telecoms

Website

hisilicon.com

Headquarters address

Bantian, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Year founded

2004

Huawei

Slapped with reality: why Huawei’s top chip scientist embraces war-hero mindset

In viral interview, Liao Heng talks navigating US curbs to make Ascend processors, placing innovation over nanometres for chip self-reliance.

5 Aug 2026 - 5:49AMvideocam

Huawei

Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law: a new path amid US sanctions

24 Jul 2026 - 10:30PM

China-Latin America relations

Exclusive | Huawei considering deploying Ascend AI chips in Latin America, cloud chief says

12 Jun 2026 - 11:37PMvideocam

Huawei

Meet He Tingbo: Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ trying to rewrite China’s semiconductor playbook

Presentation in Shanghai shows how company is trying to shift conversation from what it cannot buy to what it can still build.

27 May 2026 - 4:00PM

He Tingbo, chair of the Huawei Scientist Committee and president of the company’s semiconductor business department. Photo: Handout

Science

Could China’s ion implanter ‘scalpel’ carve out secure chip supply chains?

The technology is central to some forms of semiconductor manufacturing and dominated by overseas players.

18 Jan 2026 - 6:00PMvideocam

United States

China’s AI sector poised for growth despite US restrictions: venture capitalist

China’s AI sector gains confidence with DeepSeek’s emergence, but tech ecosystem needs to improve, GSR United Capital’s Zhou Qi says.

16 Dec 2025 - 3:55PM

Huawei

Huawei’s latest Kirin 9030 processor powers premium Mate 80 smartphones

Huawei’s Richard Yu Chengdong claims strong double-digit performance improvement by the new Mate 80 models running the Kirin 9030 processor.

26 Nov 2025 - 6:52AM

Smartphones

Huawei’s Mate 80, foldable Mate X7 handsets to square off against Apple, Xiaomi

Speculation swirls that Huawei’s latest smartphones will run its new Kirin 9030 processor.

18 Nov 2025 - 8:00PM

Semiconductors

Huawei’s AI chip road map bolsters China’s tech self-sufficiency efforts

US-sanctioned Huawei shows it can match Nvidia’s multi-year chip road map, Interconnected Capital’s Kevin Xu says.

20 Sep 2025 - 11:00AM

Semiconductors

Huawei names new head of HiSilicon unit as Chinese chipmakers consolidate

It was unclear if the personnel changes were due to Huawei’s rotating chairman system or any adjustment in HiSilicon’s business structure.

12 Sep 2025 - 6:30PM

Established in 1991, HiSilicon was credited with designing Huawei’s Kirin and Ascend processors. Photo: Handout

Artificial intelligence

Baidu unveils AI computing platform powered by Chinese-designed chips

The Baige 5.0 infrastructure platform aims to raise the efficiency of DeepSeek’s open-source AI models.

28 Aug 2025 - 4:56PM

Baidu’s Baige 5.0 AI infrastructure platform delivers enhanced model training and inferencing capabilities. Photo: Shutterstock

Semiconductors

Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?

Widely speculated suppliers include Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads, Hygon and MetaX.

16 Dec 2025 - 3:55PM

Semiconductors

Huawei opens Douyin account to promote HiSilicon as it expands chip design work

HiSilicon is the in-house chip design unit that developed the Kirin processors behind Huawei’s smartphones.

21 Aug 2025 - 8:00PM

Huawei

Huawei reveals Kirin chip inside 5G smartphones as firm overcomes US sanctions

Designed by subsidiary HiSilicon, the Kirin 9020 system-on-a-chip powers Huawei’s premium handsets, including the Mate 70 and Pura 80 series.

19 Aug 2025 - 9:00PM

Huawei

Ex-Huawei employees sentenced to jail for stealing semiconductor-related secrets

Shanghai court sentences 14 former Huawei employees to jail for stealing chip-related business secrets from the company.

5 Aug 2025 - 3:04PM

Huawei

Huawei’s Pura 80 roll-out in Dubai is latest move in global smartphone push

The Pura 80 series, which debuted in mainland China last month, marks Huawei’s latest expansion into major overseas markets.

11 Jul 2025 - 5:02PM

Huawei

Huawei to launch premium Pura 80 smartphone series next week

The Chinese tech giant has remained silent amid speculation about an upgraded chip for the coming model.

3 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

US-China tech war

US targeting Huawei worldwide opens new front in trade war

Optimism over a truce in the US-China trade war faded after the US sought to ban the use of Huawei Ascend AI chips “anywhere in the world”.

19 May 2025 - 5:15PM

China technology

The View | However innovative, China needs a network to become chip self-sufficient

The Western semiconductor landscape is an intertwined global network, fostered by decades of collaborative research and intellectual property sharing. Beijing must learn to marshal its domestic and international resources in a similar way to realise its ambitions.

12 Mar 2024 - 9:12PMvideocam

Semiconductors

Huawei’s AI chip prowess under scrutiny after Nvidia taps it as likely rival

Huawei Technologies’ new Ascend 910B chip, already available on the mainland, is said to be on par in terms of computing power with Nvidia’s sought-after A100 graphics processing unit.

3 Mar 2024 - 12:00PM

Huawei

Baidu buys AI chips from Huawei, as US restricts Nvidia chip exports

Baidu ordered US$61 million worth of Huawei’s 910B Ascend AI chips, which are marketed as an alternative to Nvidia’s A100 chip, according to people familiar with the matter.

7 Nov 2023 - 8:37PMvideocam

US-China tech war

China’s YMTC makes world’s most advanced memory chip: TechInsights report

China’s leading memory chip producer, Yangtze Memory Technologies Co, has manufactured the ‘world’s most advanced’ 3D NAND memory chip, according to TechInsights.

27 Oct 2023 - 9:07AM

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YMTC has made surprise tech breakthrough with memory chip, says TechInsights. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China tech war

Latest US sanctions strike strong blow to China’s GPU champions

Washington’s move signals a further blockade on China’s development of AI chips, according to analysts. To survive, Biren and Moore Threads will now have to double down on their efforts to seek self-sufficiency.

19 Oct 2023 - 12:33AM

Semiconductors

China downplays reports of Taiwanese firms helping Huawei’s semiconductor ambitions

China’s Taiwan affairs office has accused Taipei of ‘obstructing’ cross-strait economic cooperation after the Democratic Progressive Party investigated firms helping Huawei.

11 Oct 2023 - 7:30PM

Huawei

Tech war takes a new turn as Huawei pushes 5G smartphones with mystery chip

Huawei’s return to the 5G smartphone market and the controversy over its advanced, made-in-China processor reflect the lengths taken by the company to build up its operations, following years of struggles on account of US trade sanctions.

3 Oct 2023 - 2:26PM

Huawei

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei maintains that he is ‘an Apple fan’

Ren Zhengfei, who serves as Huawei’s chief executive, said he was against ‘xenophobia’ towards any foreign brand and sees Apple as a valuable teacher.

19 Sep 2023 - 8:33PMvideocam

Huawei

Huawei executive calls for greater adoption of Chinese-made semiconductors

Greater adoption of home-developed chips, servers and personal computers would enable China to achieve hi-tech advances, according to Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu.

20 Sep 2023 - 12:33PM

Huawei

Huawei surprises again with low-key presales of new top-of-the-line Mate 60 Pro+

The new 5G smartphone model from Huawei is expected to heat up scrutiny on the company and suspected advanced chip supplier Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.

8 Sep 2023 - 7:30PM

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HiSilicon

Slapped with reality: why Huawei’s top chip scientist embraces war-hero mindset

In viral interview, Liao Heng talks navigating US curbs to make Ascend processors, placing innovation over nanometres for chip self-reliance.

Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law: a new path amid US sanctions

.css-1f6sr3w{color:#727272;}Exclusive | Huawei considering deploying Ascend AI chips in Latin America, cloud chief says

Meet He Tingbo: Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ trying to rewrite China’s semiconductor playbook

Presentation in Shanghai shows how company is trying to shift conversation from what it cannot buy to what it can still build.

Could China’s ion implanter ‘scalpel’ carve out secure chip supply chains?

The technology is central to some forms of semiconductor manufacturing and dominated by overseas players.

China’s AI sector poised for growth despite US restrictions: venture capitalist

China’s AI sector gains confidence with DeepSeek’s emergence, but tech ecosystem needs to improve, GSR United Capital’s Zhou Qi says.

Huawei’s latest Kirin 9030 processor powers premium Mate 80 smartphones

Huawei’s Richard Yu Chengdong claims strong double-digit performance improvement by the new Mate 80 models running the Kirin 9030 processor.

Huawei’s Mate 80, foldable Mate X7 handsets to square off against Apple, Xiaomi

Speculation swirls that Huawei’s latest smartphones will run its new Kirin 9030 processor.

Huawei’s AI chip road map bolsters China’s tech self-sufficiency efforts

US-sanctioned Huawei shows it can match Nvidia’s multi-year chip road map, Interconnected Capital’s Kevin Xu says.

Huawei names new head of HiSilicon unit as Chinese chipmakers consolidate

It was unclear if the personnel changes were due to Huawei’s rotating chairman system or any adjustment in HiSilicon’s business structure.

Baidu unveils AI computing platform powered by Chinese-designed chips

The Baige 5.0 infrastructure platform aims to raise the efficiency of DeepSeek’s open-source AI models.

Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?

Widely speculated suppliers include Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads, Hygon and MetaX.

Huawei opens Douyin account to promote HiSilicon as it expands chip design work

HiSilicon is the in-house chip design unit that developed the Kirin processors behind Huawei’s smartphones.

Huawei reveals Kirin chip inside 5G smartphones as firm overcomes US sanctions

Designed by subsidiary HiSilicon, the Kirin 9020 system-on-a-chip powers Huawei’s premium handsets, including the Mate 70 and Pura 80 series.

Ex-Huawei employees sentenced to jail for stealing semiconductor-related secrets

Shanghai court sentences 14 former Huawei employees to jail for stealing chip-related business secrets from the company.

Huawei’s Pura 80 roll-out in Dubai is latest move in global smartphone push

The Pura 80 series, which debuted in mainland China last month, marks Huawei’s latest expansion into major overseas markets.

Huawei to launch premium Pura 80 smartphone series next week

The Chinese tech giant has remained silent amid speculation about an upgraded chip for the coming model.

US targeting Huawei worldwide opens new front in trade war

Optimism over a truce in the US-China trade war faded after the US sought to ban the use of Huawei Ascend AI chips “anywhere in the world”.

.css-1pcrwvc{color:#2aa191;}The View | However innovative, China needs a network to become chip self-sufficient

The Western semiconductor landscape is an intertwined global network, fostered by decades of collaborative research and intellectual property sharing. Beijing must learn to marshal its domestic and international resources in a similar way to realise its ambitions.

Huawei’s AI chip prowess under scrutiny after Nvidia taps it as likely rival

Huawei Technologies’ new Ascend 910B chip, already available on the mainland, is said to be on par in terms of computing power with Nvidia’s sought-after A100 graphics processing unit.

Baidu buys AI chips from Huawei, as US restricts Nvidia chip exports

Baidu ordered US$61 million worth of Huawei’s 910B Ascend AI chips, which are marketed as an alternative to Nvidia’s A100 chip, according to people familiar with the matter.

China’s YMTC makes world’s most advanced memory chip: TechInsights report

China’s leading memory chip producer, Yangtze Memory Technologies Co, has manufactured the ‘world’s most advanced’ 3D NAND memory chip, according to TechInsights.

Latest US sanctions strike strong blow to China’s GPU champions

Washington’s move signals a further blockade on China’s development of AI chips, according to analysts. To survive, Biren and Moore Threads will now have to double down on their efforts to seek self-sufficiency.

China downplays reports of Taiwanese firms helping Huawei’s semiconductor ambitions

China’s Taiwan affairs office has accused Taipei of ‘obstructing’ cross-strait economic cooperation after the Democratic Progressive Party investigated firms helping Huawei.

Tech war takes a new turn as Huawei pushes 5G smartphones with mystery chip

Huawei’s return to the 5G smartphone market and the controversy over its advanced, made-in-China processor reflect the lengths taken by the company to build up its operations, following years of struggles on account of US trade sanctions.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei maintains that he is ‘an Apple fan’

Ren Zhengfei, who serves as Huawei’s chief executive, said he was against ‘xenophobia’ towards any foreign brand and sees Apple as a valuable teacher.

Huawei executive calls for greater adoption of Chinese-made semiconductors

Greater adoption of home-developed chips, servers and personal computers would enable China to achieve hi-tech advances, according to Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu.

Huawei surprises again with low-key presales of new top-of-the-line Mate 60 Pro+

The new 5G smartphone model from Huawei is expected to heat up scrutiny on the company and suspected advanced chip supplier Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.

Exclusive | Huawei considering deploying Ascend AI chips in Latin America, cloud chief says

The View | However innovative, China needs a network to become chip self-sufficient