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Huawei develops 'entirely Chinese' homegrown desktop PC system

What happened

According to a report by the Southern China Morning Post published 9 November 2026, Huawei has introduced its first desktop PCs powered by its own 10-core processor and proprietary HarmonyOS operating system, the Qinyun HM650 and HM650g. The machines come with 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory (probably made by China's CXMT) and either a 256GB or 512GB SSD (probably made by Chinese flash maker YMTC), and are powered by Huawei's Kirin X90 system-on-chip, which originally debuted in Huawei's consumer systems in 2025. The Kirin X90 features 10 Huawei-designed Armv8-based Taishan CPU cores in a 4+4+2 configuration, with all cores supporting simultaneous multithreading (SMT) to execute up to 20 threads simultaneously; the chip also integrates Huawei's Maleoon graphics processing unit (Arm Mali-based) and a dedicated neural processing unit for AI workloads. Huawei does not officially disclose the Kirin X90's manufacturing process, but a teardown analysis by TechInsights confirmed the CPU is manufactured by SMIC using its 7nm-class N+2 process technology, which trails leading-edge nodes from Intel, TSMC, and Samsung. Huawei claims all of the new system's components, including the processor, memory, storage, power supply, and wireless connectivity, are manufactured domestically; however, the article notes these chips are still made using foreign manufacturing equipment (from the Netherlands, U.S., and Japan), materials (from Japan), intellectual property (from the UK), and EDA software (from the U.S. and partly from China). The machines run HarmonyOS Enterprise Edition, which uses Huawei's own kernel and software architecture (unlike earlier HarmonyOS versions that incorporated Linux components), but compatibility with existing Windows applications could remain a limitation for enterprise customers that rely on software by multinational corporations for Windows. The source does not state any market-level cause; it cites national security and domestic supply chains inside the sanctioned country as the context for Huawei's 'entirely domestic' claim.