Huawei believes its Kirin processors provide a big competitive advantage

Huawei P20 & P20 Pro with Kirin 970

The world’s top three smartphone manufacturers all make use of their own processors. Despite this, only Samsung supplies these chips to other brands, with both Apple and Huawei’s offerings remaining exclusive to their respective devices. And now, the Senior Product Director at Huawei, Brody Ji, explained exactly why.

From Huawei’s point of view, the Kirin-branded chips aren’t “a business.” Instead, the Chinese company sees them more as an in-house product that can give its smartphones a significant ...