Huawei says it’s made a 100 percent Chinese PC

Huawei has unveiled a desktop PC, the Qingyun HM650, that utilizes exclusively Chinese-made components. The new machine is powered by Huawei's own Kirin X90 processor, a ten-core 20-thread processor clocked at 2.3 GHz. This new PC runs a unique enterprise version of HarmonyOS, a homegrown operating system from Huawei designed to reduce dependency on Android.

A single Chinese government agency has already committed to purchasing 600 units of the PC. While Huawei claims that 100 percent of the machine's components were manufactured in China, it is unclear if all these components are entirely Chinese, as several non-Chinese companies maintain factories in the country. Regardless of the origin of the components, the launch of the Qingyun HM650 is a significant blow to Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm, as the shrinking PC market is already impacting these companies due to rising memory costs.

China's government, the largest buyer of PCs, stands to gain from Huawei's successful product launch. Additionally, Japan has announced a ¥10 billion ($63 million) emergency response package to bolster its cyber-defenses after a series of cyberattacks targeting railways, retailers, logistics providers, and cloud computing operators.

Lenovo, in a separate development, has appointed a new leader for its APAC operations, moving Amar Babu to the mobile business group general manager and global president at Motorola. Meanwhile, Vietnam has unveiled its first domestically-designed security chip, a 28-nanometer device that integrates encryption algorithms in silicon.

The chip, currently in use on secure USB storage devices, aims to secure storage for the national digital signature certification system and protect critical infrastructure systems in various sectors.