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HiSilicon

The latest news, analysis and opinion on HiSilicon. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.

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

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

18 Nov 2025 - 8:00PM

Semiconductors

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

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

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.

22 Aug 2025 - 9:48PM

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

A Huawei flagship store in the Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing. Photo: AP Photo

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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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

Huawei Technologies’ new top-of-the-line Mate 60 Pro+ 5G smartphone. Photo: Handout

Semiconductors

SMIC under the spotlight for ‘breakthrough’ 5G chip in Huawei’s new smartphone

Speculation has ramped up over the role of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, mainland China’s top contract chip maker, in producing an advanced 5G chip for Huawei amid US trade sanctions.

28 Sep 2023 - 6:34PM

Huawei

Explainer | Where did Huawei get the advanced chips for its latest Mate 60 Pro smartphone?

Huawei Technologies has been tight-lipped about the origin of the advanced semiconductor that powers its new Mate 60 Pro flagship smartphone. Here are some possible explanations.

2 Sep 2023 - 10:30AM

Huawei

Speculation swirls around Huawei’s advanced chip for its latest smartphone

A Chinese benchmarking website has identified the Mate 60 Pro’s central processing unit as the Kirin 9000s, which supports 5G and was developed by Huawei chip design arm HiSilicon.

31 Aug 2023 - 2:21PM

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Huawei Technologies’ new Mate 60 Pro smartphones. Photo: Handout

Semiconductors

Micron’s path from China business partner to alleged cybersecurity threat

This timeline highlights Micron Technology’s key developments since its entry into the China market over two decades ago, leading up to it being branded a national cybersecurity threat.

25 May 2023 - 1:55AMvideocam

A person walks out of a building where the facilities of US chip maker Micron are located in Shanghai, China, May 22, 2023. Photo: AFP

Semiconductors

Smartphone giant Oppo’s closure of chip design unit Zeku triggers speculation

Oppo’s decision to close Zeku and dismiss nearly 3,000 engineers marked one of the largest semiconductor industry lay-offs in mainland China.

16 May 2023 - 2:44PMvideocam

Semiconductors

Chinese smartphone brand Oppo shutters chip design unit amid sufficiency drive

Oppo, the fourth largest smartphone brand in the world, announced the move in a short statement on Friday after giving employees less than a day’s notice.

15 May 2023 - 9:43PM

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HiSilicon

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

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

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-1m2rp1p{color:#34b8b5;}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.

SMIC under the spotlight for ‘breakthrough’ 5G chip in Huawei’s new smartphone

Speculation has ramped up over the role of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, mainland China’s top contract chip maker, in producing an advanced 5G chip for Huawei amid US trade sanctions.

.css-sioo19{color:#c79a00;}Explainer | Where did Huawei get the advanced chips for its latest Mate 60 Pro smartphone?

Huawei Technologies has been tight-lipped about the origin of the advanced semiconductor that powers its new Mate 60 Pro flagship smartphone. Here are some possible explanations.

Speculation swirls around Huawei’s advanced chip for its latest smartphone

A Chinese benchmarking website has identified the Mate 60 Pro’s central processing unit as the Kirin 9000s, which supports 5G and was developed by Huawei chip design arm HiSilicon.

Micron’s path from China business partner to alleged cybersecurity threat

This timeline highlights Micron Technology’s key developments since its entry into the China market over two decades ago, leading up to it being branded a national cybersecurity threat.

Smartphone giant Oppo’s closure of chip design unit Zeku triggers speculation

Oppo’s decision to close Zeku and dismiss nearly 3,000 engineers marked one of the largest semiconductor industry lay-offs in mainland China.

Chinese smartphone brand Oppo shutters chip design unit amid sufficiency drive

Oppo, the fourth largest smartphone brand in the world, announced the move in a short statement on Friday after giving employees less than a day’s notice.

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

Explainer | Where did Huawei get the advanced chips for its latest Mate 60 Pro smartphone?