A teardown of the Huawei Mate 60 Professional left politicians and corporations scratching their heads – how did Huawei handle to get a 5G-capable, 7nm chipset? Underneath present sanctions, this shouldn’t be doable. And but right here it’s.
Now right here is one other teardown of the telephone, this time in English somewhat than Chinese language. Not that it makes the state of affairs any clearer. Right here is the telephone’s motherboard uncovered:
You may’t see the HiSilicon Kirin 9000s chipset itself, as an alternative you see the SK Hynix RAM chips that sit above it. These are themselves a thriller and SK launched an investigation into how simply these made their approach into the Mate 60 Professional (the corporate says it hasn’t bought to Huawei since 2020 hen the sanctions hit).
Anyway, you could have caught the PBKreviews drop take a look at, which confirmed simply how powerful Huawei’s Kunlun 2 glass is – which is an effective factor, for the reason that 6.82” LTPO AMOLED show on the telephone proved to be very tough to take away and was irreparably broken within the course of.
In the end, the Huawei Mate 60 Professional was given a 5/10 repairability score. Eradicating the show is a mandatory step in the direction of accessing the internals and that makes altering most issues tough.
Take a look at the complete teardown video under:
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