a comeback on the smartphone market with the Mate 50 Pro in 2022?

Huawei’s ordeal in the smartphone market may well end next year, if a new rumor from China is to be believed. Indeed, Huawei would have found a way to bypass US sanctions to produce a Mate 50 5G.

Until now, Huawei had to deal with US sanctions that prevented it from exploiting 5G compatible technologies for its smartphones. Huawei, for example, had to use Snapdragon chips without a 5G modem for its recent P50 and P50 Pro models, which were unveiled last week.

5G devices can use two types of waves for Radio Frequency (RF) applications: Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) and Bulk Acoustic Waves (BAW). Whatever option you choose, 5G RF chip core link filter main technology is from USA, that is why Huawei cannot use 5G compatible components. However, the Chinese manufacturer has reportedly found a solution to circumvent these restrictions.

Huawei Mate 50 5G reportedly uses China-made RF chip

Rather than using American RF chips for its smartphones like all its competitors do, Huawei could use 5G RF chips made in China as early as next year. This would allow Huawei’s high-end Mate 50 smartphone, which should normally have been released by the end of this year, to be 5G compatible.

According to a report from MyDrivers, the Huawei Mate 50 5G could be launched in the second quarter of 2022, and use a Snapdragon 898. Qualcomm’s next high-end processor, which we know for now as its model number “SM8450” and its code name “Waipo”, will be the first on the market to be engraved in 4nm.

We can expect a significant performance improvement over the current Snapdragon 888, since the chip will use ARM’s new v9 architecture. The latter would be nearly 30% faster and would bury 32-bits a little more. We should see a few smartphones coming with the new Snapdragon SM8450 from next December after its presentation at Snapdragon Tech Summit 2021, and the future Xiaomi Mi 12 could be the first of them.

Source: MyDrivers