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Huawei unveils 'entirely Chinese' desktop PCs with the Kirin X90 CPU and HarmonyOS

Huawei launched the Qinyun HM650 and HM650g, its first desktop PCs with its own 10-core processor and the HarmonyOS Enterprise operating system. The company says every component is made in China, but the supply chain still relies on Western equipment and software.

Huawei unveils 'entirely Chinese' desktop PCs with the Kirin X90 CPU and HarmonyOS
Image: Tom's Hardware (opens the source site in a new tab)

According to Tom's Hardware, citing the South China Morning Post, the PCs come with 16GB of LPDDR5 memory and a 256GB or 512GB SSD, and are built on the Kirin X90 chip with 10 Huawei-designed Taishan cores (Armv8), 20 threads, a GPU and an NPU for AI workloads. A TechInsights analysis found the chip is made by SMIC on its 7nm-class N+2 process, well behind the leading-edge nodes of TSMC, Intel and Samsung.

The machines run HarmonyOS Enterprise Edition, which according to Huawei uses its own kernel and software architecture, without the Linux components of earlier versions. Still, the chips are made with equipment from the Netherlands, the US and Japan, materials from Japan, intellectual property from the UK and design (EDA) tools that are mostly American. Compatibility with Windows software may limit enterprise customers.

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