Huawei Relies on China’s YMTC for Memory Chip in Latest Phone
- The Pura 70 sold out within days, adding to Huawei resurgence
- Shenzhen company has developed ways around US sanctions
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Huawei Technologies Co.’s latest flagship smartphone has switched to a domestic supplier for a major component in another step toward building a wholly made-in-China device.
The Pura 70 series, powered by Huawei’s in-house Kirin 9010 chip, uses NAND storage from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., a teardown by TechInsights revealed. The technology is a generational improvement over the YMTC chips used in 2023 devices, though it may not be quite as advanced as the SK Hynix Inc. memory Huawei used in the Mate 60 series, TechInsights said.