Huawei’s Mate 70 series is garnering a lot of interest and could be faced with production bottlenecks | Infinium-tech

Huawei introduced the Mate 70 series last week and started pre-orders for the lineup a few days ago. The company offers all four models on its store, Vmall, and third-party retailers: Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro+, and Mate 70 RS Ultimate Design.

According to a new report, these devices are garnering a lot of interest collectively. According to He Gang, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group, there are now more than 6.7 million reservations in China for the Mate 70 series. It should be noted that these reservations are not proper pre-orders, costing no money and therefore non-binding, but apparently, they still represent a surprising level of interest. Analysts still say the promotion isn’t as big as last year’s Mate 60 line, but it’s still impressive.

Apparently, Huawei’s manufacturing and supply chain is working overtime to meet demand, and it’s likely that the initial supply will not be enough. Huawei’s homegrown Kirin 9020 chipset, which was found powering the Mate 70 phone, may be the biggest hurdle in manufacturing. This chip appears to represent the best of China’s current US-independent mobile technology offering. It has an 8-core, 12-thread CPU with one 2.5 GHz core, three 2.15 GHz cores, and four 1.6 GHz cores; The GPU runs at 840 MHz. The Kirin 9020 still lags behind the current crop of Western 3nm flagship chips, but is still said to offer around 30% better performance than the previous generation Kirin 9010.

As a reminder, the vanilla Mate 70 starts at CNY5,499. The Mate 70 Pro is priced at CNY6,499 and the Mate 70 Pro+ will cost you at least CNY8,499. Finally, the Mate 70 RS Ultimate Edition is priced at an attractive CNY11,999.

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