SHENZHEN's Huawei Technologies is increasingly sourcing components for its smartphones in China, with a teardown of the recently released Mate 60 Pro showing Chinese parts constituting 47 per cent on a value basis - up 18 per cent from a model analysed three years ago, reports Tokyo's Nikkei Asia
SHENZHEN's Huawei Technologies is increasingly sourcing components for its smartphones in China, with a teardown of the recently released Mate 60 Pro showing Chinese parts constituting 47 per cent on a value basis - up 18 per cent from a model analysed three years ago, reports Tokyo's Nikkei Asia. Nikkei, together with research firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, disassembled Huawei's high-end smartphone to analyse component costs. The Mate 60 Pro was released in August for the Chinese market. The manufacturer of each component was identified, with the share of overall cost calculated by country.
The teardown shows that China has made rapid technological advances, including semiconductors using 7-nanometer production technology, since the US intensified export restrictions on cutting-edge equipment and software in 2019.
Fomalhaut estimated the total cost of Mate 60 Pro parts at US$422. In terms of share by country, China led at 47 per cent. The Chinese smartphone maker's percentage of domestically made components climbed by 18 per cent from the similarly priced Mate 40 Pro launched in fall 2020, when the impact of US sanctions was still limited.
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