With no risk of the potential security backdoors implemented in the processor.

Except for the Chinese ones.

Huh how are they getting these chips?

FlankerHuh how are they getting these chips?

They pay TSMC a lot of money?

Wonder what type of OS is on there. If it is based on any type of linux there is a good chance this can be sold worldwide, just need a different OS distro.

TheLostSwedeThey pay TSMC a lot of money?

I thought there is a ban preventing TSMC from making chips for Huawei?

FlankerHuh how are they getting these chips?

Im guessing that even though Taiwan are still under threat of invasion by Big Red. They havent been invaded yet so there is no need to completely break ties with companies who have probably already paid them up front to manufacture and supply them. Unless war were declared, business is business and TSMC isnt an American company so the U.S Administration cant dictate who TSMC does business with.

FlankerI thought there is a ban preventing TSMC from making chips for Huawei?

Only if the product contains US technology.
Arm is owned by SoftBank, so it's Japanese/British technology.
I guess technically USB, PCIe, WiFi etc. are all US technology if you want to be really strict, but I don't know where the line is drawn.

While the idea is palatable, implementation is still a mixed bag of beans and gravel...
1) 9006C is most probably an incremental update to Kirin 990, hence an asterisk near 3.1GHz (e.g. only 1 or 2 high-power cores can run at those clocks, and I think its a 1+3+4 setup)
2) While UOS(Deepin) is fine and all, you may have some issues with third-party distros.
3) In its essence it's a crossbreed of Samsung Chromebook and a Pixel laptop: gets the underwhelming performance like the former, aesthetics and price tag like the latter, and doesn't even have a place to land on the market.
4) If a $1300 price tag is correct and I'm not hallucinating - it's insane. You can get an M1 macbook air for that kind of money, even in China.

xkm1948Wonder what type of OS is on there. If it is based on any type of linux there is a good chance this can be sold worldwide, just need a different OS distro.

UOS is debian-based distro (based on Deepin). Kirin OS is a bit of a mystery, but I'm just gonna throw a wild guess that it's a heavily-modded ChromiumOS. And HarmonyOS - heavily modded AOSP.
Even if they manage to go worldwide - I'm sure they won't sell that well for 1,300 yankee rubles.

FlankerHuh how are they getting these chips?

Technicalities and stockpiling? I've read some writeups when it was still a hot topic, and as far as I understand - this ban prevents TSMC from accepting "new" orders, but does not prevent from fulfilling existing orders. Right before it all went in effect, TSMC got swarmed with a shitload of orders on advanced nodes, which will cover the bases for Huawei at least until 5nm and 7nm become irrelevant.

FreedomEclipseIm guessing that even though Taiwan are still under threat of invasion by Big Red. They havent been invaded yet so there is no need to completely break ties with companies who have probably already paid them up front to manufacture and supply them. Unless war were declared, business is business and TSMC isnt an American company so the U.S Administration cant dictate who TSMC does business with.

We also don't know when these chips were made and TSMC obviously had some contracts with Huawei that they could've decided to fulfill, since that's what most decent companies do.
After all, it takes a few months from when TSMC is done, until a chip is tested, packaged and shipped to whoever is making a device, the device is tested and then mass produced. For all we know, these chips were made before the September 14th US embargo date.

LPDDR5 is not DDR5 or a variant of DDR5.

Good luck selling these in the US :laugh:

Spywei...no thanks