Huawei to release “disruptive” products in 2024 after shocking the world this year

As August came to an end this year, Huawei shocked the world by unveiling the Mate 60 Pro. Unveiling a new flagship phone isn't that shocking, but equipping it with Huawei's first in-house 5G chipset in three years, the 7nm Kirin 9000, surely was. Due to the US export rule that prevented foundries using US equipment to make chips from sending cutting-edge silicon to Huawei, Huawei's last 5G flagship was 2020's Mate 40 line, powered by Kirin 9000 and Kirin 9000E 5nm.

After the release of the Mate 40 series, Huawei turned its attention to 4G versions of the Snapdragon chips that it was able to license to import to power its recent flagship models such as the 2022 Mate 50 series and the 2023 P60 lineup None of these phones would be able to connect to 5G signals without the use of a special 5G case offered by a third-party accessories company.

US lawmakers went crazy when Huawei unveiled the Mate 60 Pro, surprised that China's largest foundry, SMIC, could build a 7nm chip, especially one capable of supporting 5G. Even to this day, we still don't know for sure how SMIC was able to circumvent US sanctions to build the Kirin 9000 SoC. According to South China Morning Postwe can expect more from Huawei next year according to the head of the company's consumer division, Yu Chengdong (better known by his Americanized name Richard Yu).

Yu says Huawei will launch “disruptive” products next year that could “rewrite industry history.” These products will be “cutting edge, innovative and disruptive,” the executive said on Saturday during the annual meeting of the Huawei fan club. During the event, Yu also said that Huawei will launch native apps and products based on its self-developed HarmonyOS platform. Huawei is looking to attract more app developers to write for the platform and the next version of the software will not support Android apps.