Huawei continues to be on the US blacklist, but that does not stop the Chinese from continuing their projects. The Huawei P50 is on standby for the global launch, and recently there have been rumors about a Mate 50 delayed until 2022. Now we learn that Huawei would have received access to new Qualcomm processors.
Huawei had already managed to get a 4G version of Snapdragon 888 for the Huawei P50 series, and now it would also have obtained agreements for Snapdragon 898 and 778. I remind you that US sanctions block the company's access to 5G components, but 4G ones can be bought smoothly. Qualcomm sells a Snapdragon CPU without a 5G modem to Huawei. Rumor Digital Chat Station writes that Huawei will be able to buy whole installments of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G processors, in the 4G version, and later a Snapdragon 898 can be awarded for a possible Huawei P60 or Mate 50.
That CPU hasn't been announced yet, but it has received benchmark leaks that indicate a 20% jump over the current generation. It will be produced in Samsung factories, announced in December that usually and probably inaugurated by Xiaomi on Mi 12, and a kind of tradition in the last 2-3 years. The Snapdragon 778G could even appear on a new series of Huawei Nova 9 phones, which will arrive on September 23.
The source also writes that Huawei is conducting similar negotiations with MediaTek, which has recently moved very well and managed to overtake Qualcomm at the end of 2020, having chipsets on more than 100 million phones in T3 2020.