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

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

As per a new report, the devices have collectively been enjoying quite a bit of interest. According to Huawei’s consumer business group CEO He Gang, the Mate 70 series now has more than 6.7 million reservations in China. It should be noted that these reservations are not proper pre-orders, don’t cost any money and are hence non-binding, but apparently, they still represent a surprising level of interest. Analysts still say that the hype isn’t nearly as big as last year’s Mate 60 line, but it is still impressive.

Apparently, Huawei’s manufacturing and supply chain is working overtime to keep up with the demand, and chances are that the initial supplies won’t be enough. Huawei’s homegrown Kirin 9020 chipset, found to be powering the Mate 70 phones could very well be the biggest manufacturing bottleneck. The chip seems to represent the best China’s current US-independent mobile tech can offer. 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 is still behind the current crop of western 3nm flagship chips, but it is still said to offer around 30% better performance than the last-gen Kirin 9010.

Just as a reminder, the vanilla Mate 70 starts at CNY5,499. The Mate 70 Pro costs CNY6,499 and the Mate 70 Pro+ will set you back at least CNY8,499. Finally, the Mate 70 RS Ultimate Edition starts at an eye-watering CNY11,999.

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