Huawei has used key components from local suppliers in its latest flagship smartphone, another step towards developing a device entirely made in China.
An analysis from TechInsights shows that the Pura 70 series is equipped with a Kirin 9010 chipset and uses NAND memory from Yangtze Memory Technology.
TechInsights says the technology is an improvement on the Yangtze Memory Technology chips used in devices launching in 2023, though it may not be as advanced as the memory Huawei uses in its Mate 60 SK Hynix Inc. series.
At the end of last August, Huawei shocked the world of smartphones by launching its distinguished phone, the Mate 60 Pro, equipped with a Chinese-made processor from SMIC.
The US sanctions against Huawei and SMIC are aimed at preventing the two companies from developing advanced 5G chipsets such as the Kirin 9000 in Mate devices.
Chinese media and online commentators hailed the success as a national success.
These sanctions imposed by Washington limit the ability of international suppliers such as SK Hynix to deal with Huawei, and the South Korean company said that it has not dealt with the Chinese company since the rules were implemented.
The Chinese telecom giant has benefited from huge stockpiles of chips and components that it built up in response to sanctions in 2020.
The Pura 70 series has no shortage of foreign technology, and TechInsights has discovered that the DRAM inside is from Samsung. This generation of storage debuted a year ago in the Galaxy S23+, as seen through the teardown.
Huawei's return has been rewarded by increased smartphone sales in China, allowing the company to reclaim some of the unique market segments it had to give up when it became isolated from modern chipmaking.
TechInsights expects Huawei to ship about 10.4 million Pura phones this year.
Huawei's resurgence in the high-end smartphone market after four years of US sanctions has caught the attention of US rivals and politicians because it has come to symbolize trade problems between the US and China and China's attempts to become technologically self-sufficient.