A teardown of the Huawei Mate 60 Professional left politicians and firms scratching their heads – how did Huawei handle to get a 5G-capable, 7nm chipset? Below present sanctions, this shouldn’t be doable. And but right here it’s.

Now right here is one other teardown of the cellphone, this time in English slightly than Chinese language. Not that it makes the scenario any clearer. Right here is the cellphone’s motherboard uncovered:

The Huawei Mate 60 Professional motherboard

You may’t see the HiSilicon Kirin 9000s chipset itself, as a substitute you see the SK Hynix RAM chips that sit above it. These are themselves a thriller and SK launched an investigation into how simply these made their approach into the Mate 60 Professional (the corporate says it hasn’t bought to Huawei since 2020 hen the sanctions hit).

Anyway, you could have caught the PBKreviews drop take a look at, which confirmed simply how powerful Huawei’s Kunlun 2 glass is – which is an efficient factor, for the reason that 6.82” LTPO AMOLED show on the cellphone proved to be very troublesome to take away and was irreparably broken within the course of.

Finally, the Huawei Mate 60 Professional was given a 5/10 repairability score. Eradicating the show is a obligatory step in direction of accessing the internals and that makes altering most issues troublesome.

Try the complete teardown video beneath:

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