There was a time when Huawei was the second-largest customer of TSMC behind Apple. But thanks to the U.S. sanctions, which prevent foundries using American technology from shipping cutting-edge chips to Huawei, the latter is teaming up with SMIC and other nameless firms in an attempt to once again become a strong and competitive challenger in the smartphone industry, at least domestically for now.
For the record, Huawei received a license allowing it to use the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC but limited to 4G connectivity for this year’s flagship P60 series. The P60 Pro used two Sony camera sensors, the IMX888 for the 48MP main camera, and the IMX858 for the 13MP ultra wide-angle camera. The periscope lens used a 48MP camera sensor from OmniVision.