Huawei's Rival To iPhone 11 Has ZERO American Parts

The Chinese tech giant Huawei has reportedly managed to develop a smartphone, positioned to rival the Apple iPhone 11 series, without a single American part, reveals a Wall Street Journal report. The recent discovery was made courtesy of an analysis of Tokyo-based tech lab Fomalhaut Techno solutions and UBS. The Chinese company has been riddled by on and off US sanctions in the past few months and was even blacklisted by the current administration in May 2019.

The Huawei Mate 30, according to a new report, does not contain any American parts. Because of this, the flagship smartphone from the Chinese tech juggernaut was unable to offer users access to Google Play services. Reports have it that Huawei enticed its staff with lavish bonuses for finding a way to circumvent the recent US sanctions.

Huawei Mate 30 was launched in Sept. 2019 to rival the Apple iPhone 11 series and the Samsung Galaxy S10 series. One of the significant roadblocks to the release of Huawei Mate 30 and its more expensive sibling to other regions outside China is its lack of access to the apps and services of the search engine giant, Google, reports Business Insider. The Trump administration banned the company in May.

This means all US firms conducting business with the Chinese smartphone maker has to get a special dispensation from the government first. Because of this, US suppliers and partners could no longer do business with the Chinese tech juggernaut. This includes the long-time chip supplier of Huawei, Intel, and Qualcomm.

While the blacklisting was momentarily scaled back to provide help to existing customers of the company, Huawei was forced to come up with another plan in order to build its more recent smartphones. This includes finding alternative suppliers of pre-existing parts, as well as developing its very own in-house parts.

Older models of Huawei Mate 30 reportedly contains chips supplied by Cirrus Logic, which is a chipmaker based in Texas. However, newer models of the Huawei Mate 30 have chips allegedly provided by NXO Semiconductors, which is based in the Netherlands. Huawei has maintained a bullishly optimistic stance in the market despite the recent sanction by the US.