Huawei Reportedly Developing Own GPU And Flash Memory

Huawei has seen a considerable amount of success in the global smartphone market and it doesn’t plan on going away anytime soon. The company already uses its own Kirin processor in many of the handsets that it produces but if a new report is to be believed then the Chinese manufacturer is close to developing its own graphics processors and flash memory as well.

The company currently uses ARM’s Mali GPU chips alongside its Kirin processors, and that’s not unusual, since Samsung uses Mali GPUs in combination with its Exynos processors as well. Even Samsung has been rumored to be interested in developing its own GPUs.

The report claims that Huawei is close to starting development on its own GPU and flash memory, it will thus be able to better optimize the GPU with its Kirin processor as well as flash memory chips for an overall improved performance package allowing its devices to take on the best of them with relative ease.

What the report doesn’t say is that when we’ll start to see Huawei handsets with the company’s own GPU and flash memory chips, it will no doubt need to put the new components through extensive testing to ensure that they will be able to perform without any issues, and only then might we see the company introduce them in its devices.

Huawei wouldn’t want to do anything that negates the progress that it has made in the market, the company recently announced that it shipped 100 million smartphones this year alone, making it the third largest vendor in the global smartphone market.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: Huawei