Huawei's new Mate 70 smartphone contains a chip whose design shows only an "incremental improvement" over its predecessor and, contrary to some expectations, was made using the 7 nanometer (nm) process node,

The newly introduced Mate 70 Pro Plus phone runs on a processor built with the same 7-nanometer technology used in its Mate 60 Pro last year, according to a teardown of the device by researchers at TechInsights. The chip, Kirin 9020, is designed by Huawei and once again produced by Shanghai’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.

The Huawei Mate 70 is a 100% Made in China smartphone, the company's CEO said. Huawei managed to reach that level of autonomy.

The executive claims this is a testament of the company's true autonomy. Huawei launched the Mate 70 series two weeks ago, and today, the company

Huawei's Mate 70 features the Kirin 9020 processor, offering incremental improvements over its predecessor, the Kirin 9010, and fabricated using SMIC's 7 nm process. Limited by US sanctions restricting advanced lithography,