Huawei is one of the few companies with its own chips in China, and its flagship machine and other series of mobile phones use Kirin chips developed by itself. This is undoubtedly a great advantage in the domestic market where Qualcomm Snapdragon chips are widely used.
hisilicon is a chip company under Huawei. It has been 14 years since its development, and there are more than 1 kinds of independent chip research and development, which can compete with Qualcomm to a great extent.
Some time ago, ZTE was sanctioned by the United States. Because it may never be able to buy Qualcomm's mobile phone chips again, ZTE fell into a "bankruptcy crisis". Lenovo was also "implied" that in order to get a good relationship with Qualcomm and get the first launch of Qualcomm chip, it chose Qualcomm instead of supporting Huawei in the voting of the 5G standard. In fact, it is far more than ZTE and Lenovo. Almost all domestic mobile phones do not use Huawei's Kirin chip, but choose Qualcomm. Why?
first, Huawei doesn't want to sell it. This is actually easier to understand. Huawei's main target market is smart phones, not the chip market. Huawei makes its own chips to serve Huawei's mobile phones, not to seize the chip market. Therefore, the positioning of Kirin chip is also very clear, which is to help Huawei differentiate its mobile phones and enhance their competitiveness. If Huawei sells Kirin chips to other mobile phone manufacturers, it will have an impact on Huawei's mobile phone business.
second, I don't want to buy other domestic mobile phones. This is not to say that Huawei's chip performance is not good or what, which leads other mobile phone manufacturers not to buy it. But for the sake of competition. The performance index of Huawei Kirin chip is the same as that of Qualcomm. Since Kirin 95, Huawei's Kirin chips have reached the international top level, and the latest 97 and 98 chips can compete with Qualcomm's top chips in Snapdragon, and may be even better in some aspects. However, Huawei makes mobile phones, and there is direct competition between Huawei and other domestic mobile phone manufacturers. While Qualcomm doesn't make mobile phones, Qualcomm's business is more focused and single, and domestic mobile phone manufacturers are more assured to use Qualcomm chips.
thirdly, the productivity of Kirin chip is limited.
although Huawei can independently develop chips, its production still depends on foundries. The world's largest chip foundries are basically Samsung and TSMC. The major customers of Samsung and TSMC are Apple, MediaTek, Qualcomm and Samsung itself. Therefore, the production capacity of Kirin chip is very limited, and it is basically self-sufficient.
If I were Lei Jun, I would definitely not let Xiaomi's mobile phone rely on Huawei's chips. Because everyone is a direct competitor, a new high-performance CPU has been developed, and everyone has a model release. When the production capacity is tight, of course, we will give priority to supplying our own. In the early stage of high-end cpu, there will be a tight production capacity, and if you rely on Huawei, you will be very passive. Qualcomm, on the other hand, is different. Qualcomm doesn't make his own mobile phone, so he will sell it to whoever is strong.
therefore, Huawei Kirin chip has been used by itself, and other factories will not choose it.