Among Huawei's suppliers, CPUs mainly come from domestic HiSilicon and Qualcomm of the United States, and storage mainly comes from Samsung of South Korea and Micron of the United States. A 2016 CCID think tank report showed that Huawei's total chip procurement in 2015 was about US$14 billion.
Qualcomm in the United States is one of Huawei’s gold medal suppliers. However, Huawei’s self-developed Kirin chips have been increasingly used in Huawei and Honor series mobile phones in recent years. Correspondingly, Qualcomm The usage ratio of other chips will decrease.
The Kirin series of chips produced by HiSilicon Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Huawei, are used in high-end mobile phones such as the Huawei Mate20 series and the R Honor Magic series. Their performance is no different from the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, and Self-developed chips are safer and more controllable.
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The imported parts for Huawei mobile phones include:
1. Chips. Except for Huawei, the current domestically produced Qualcomm processors require a lot of patent fees. MediaTek has a very small market share. Even the Kirin chip independently developed by Huawei uses the ARM public version architecture, as does Qualcomm. However, the core technology is also Huawei’s own.
2. Screen. There should be no suspense about being the best screen manufacturer in the world. Samsung’s OLED yield rate is over 95% and the quality is extremely high. Domestic BOE and Wuhan Tianma are both well-known domestic screen manufacturers. Many domestically produced screens are domestically produced. At present, Most domestic flagship phones use screens from Samsung and Japan’s JDI.
5. Mobile phone memory. Many people think that making memory is easy, but it is actually very difficult. South Korean memory manufacturers Samsung and Hynix are the top two DRAM manufacturers in the world in terms of revenue. Most domestic mobile phones are imported.
Reference material: People's Daily Online - Revealing the list of Huawei's core suppliers