The Huawei Mate 60 Pro 5G is selling out and Huawei reportedly wants to stockpile units of the phone to cover expected demand.
New batch of Mate 60 Pro handsets was heading to Vmall Monday evening, the new phone was originally listed on Huawei's e-commerce site Vmall and its physical flagship store in Shenzhen. Soon, they were available from third-party online outlets such as JD.com, and Taobao, and from bricks-and-mortar locations. As of today, the Mate 60 Pro was sold out on Vmall, JD.com and Taobao. Vmall was getting set to receive another shipment of the phone Monday evening.
The Mate 60 Pro is powered by the Kirin 9000s which does support 5G. It also will make satellite calls in areas without cellular connectivity. It is believed that China's leading foundry, SMIC, manufactured the Kirin 9000s using existing equipment that didn't violate U.S. export rules. These rules prevent Huawei from receiving cutting-edge chips produced by foundries using American equipment.
Previous Huawei flagship models could not access 5G signals because they used Qualcomm chips that were tweaked not to work with 5G. Some accessory manufacturers sold cases for the Mate 50 and P60 lines that would allow these flagship models to connect to a 5G signal. But if SMIC can produce 5G chips for Huawei, this is big news indeed.
Huawei is expected to build a stockpile of at least 15 million Mate 60 series handsets. Arthur Guo Tianxiang, an analyst with market researcher IDC, cited supply chain sources when he said that more orders could be placed for the line if there is sustained consumer interest. Even before the Mate 60 Pro was announced, Huawei had made it back to the list of the top five smartphone shippers in China after delivering 14.3 million handsets in the first half of this year.
Just to be clear, the Kirin 9000s chip is not close to cutting-edge technology compared to what TSMC, and Samsung Foundry are rolling off the assembly lines. Still, Huawei reportedly has some patent applications related to EUV lithography that might make a difference. Look, every time the U.S. thought it had Huawei down for the count, the company came up big. When it comes to smartphone innovation, you don't want to be betting against Huawei.
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