TSMC chips are at the heart of a key component, known as the baseband, of Huawei’s 5G base stations.
Fomalhaut: Disassemble Huawei’s 5G base station: “BBU5900” equipment
-A little over 30% of rice-made parts are difficult
Fomalhaut Techno Solutions:
In August 2020, Huawei’s 5G-compatible base station equipment “BBU5900” was disassembled and analyzed.
5G compatible base station equipment “BBU5900”:
It is a core device called baseband that controls wireless communication and digital modulation * 1.
Results of decomposition / analysis:
Like Huawei’s smartphone, the “BBU5900” has
Many chips from China High Silicon, a subsidiary of a semiconductor design company, were used.
It turned out that more than 40% of the parts are made in China on a monetary basis.
On the other hand, more than 30% of parts made in the United States are included.
Huawei’s risks due to increased US sanctions have also been highlighted.
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Huawei’s base station teardown shows dependence on US-made parts –Nikkei Asia
Huawei Technologies
still remains heavily dependent on U.S.-made chips and components for manufacturing equipment for 5G telecom base stations,
a leading revenue source for the Chinese tech giant, while being battered by the fierce fight between America and China over who controls the technologies of the future.
A breakdown by Nikkei of Huawei’s core base station unit for fifth generation wireless networks
has revealed that parts from U.S. suppliers make up nearly 30% of the product in value terms.
The dissection
has also shown that the main semiconductor device in the unit was supplied by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer.
The findings
indicate that Huawei is struggling to wean itself from dependence on overseas suppliers but currently needs to make do with stockpiled inventories.
Huawei teardown reveals US made parts were replaced by Chinese alternatives after the Ban
According to a new report, a Tokyo teardown specialist
by the name of Fomalhaut Techno Solutions opened up Huawei ’s flagship Mate 30.
The teardown
was done to analyze the internals of the smartphone, which revealed various parts from different Chinese firms.For those unaware,
the Mate 30 is a part of Huawei ’s flagship series and boasts top notch specs but arrives with vanilla Android without Google services due to the ban.Gizmochina