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Huawei claims it’s built a desktop PC that uses only parts made in CHina.

The company launched the Qingyun HM650 last week and said it uses Huawei’s own Kirin X90 processor, a ten-core 20-thread machine with a clock speed of 2.3 GHz. The machine runs a newly developed enterprise version of HarmonyOS, the OS Huawei developed to end its dependence on Android and which it intends to run on most of the devices it makes.

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  • Malgas ( Malgas@beehaw.org ) English
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    1 day ago

    Because I didn’t see it in the article, and had to go digging: looks like it’s an ARM processor, so “PC” only in the sense of being a personal computer, not IBM PC-compatible.

      • boonhet ( boonhet@lemmy.zip ) 
        2·
        18 hours ago

        They can design their own ARM cores, they don’t need to use ARM the organization’s cores. Apple does that, which is why they have, arguably, the best SoCs out there. Laptop chips beating high end desktop x86 CPUs in single thread and multi thread, phone chip more or less matching or beating high end desktop x86 CPUs in short burst single thread (cooling being the limiting factor for anything else).

        If Huawei does the same, future Matebooks might drive the likes of Dell and HP out of the laptop business.