HUAWEI has had a rough time with its chip division HiSilicon due to the trade ban imposed by the US. However, it looks like the Chinese tech company is planning for a strong comeback this year by uploading this intriguing poster, as it suggests that HUAWEI will bring the chips back after a 2-year hiatus.

With the end of 2021 coming up, you might be thinking of your year-end celebrations. Since Christmas is also around the corner, shopping is a big agenda for many of us. There are plenty of promos going around this time of the year, and one of them is from Huawei.

Not only the smartphone business, it looks like HUAWEI has also invested a lot of money and effort in the research for its wearables. Recently, the company has opened its largest Health Lab in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, China. Besides studying health-related technology, the new 4,680m² facility also supports the research, incubation and testing of smart wearable products.

It's almost the end of the year, and it seems like there's nothing much exciting left for the smartphone industry, except the new Qualcomm 4nm chip and the first smartphone to use it, Xiaomi 12. However, this latest information might bring a plot twist to the story. According to it, HUAWEI and OPPO are each dropping a foldable device by the end of 2021. 

For smartphones, prices have increased due to a shortage of components like chipsets. Huawei is no exception, especially since its stockpile of Kirin chipset continues to dwindle. As a result, it has to rely on other brands like Qualcomm for chipsets.

HUAWEI HarmonyOS is getting its next upgrade soon, according to one of the company's employees. The last version of the operating system, which is HarmonyOS 2.0, debuted in September 2020 at the Huawei Developer Conference. Therefore, it makes sense for HarmonyOS 3.0 to arrive in this time frame.

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In this 9.9 tech gadget sales compilation article, we got ourselves some news from Shopee, OPPO, HONOR, Huawei, Xiaomi, vivo and realme. We may add more brands to this list if there's any. So for the time being, do check out what they have to offer in store for you.

Huawei regained access to Qualcomm chips this year, even if it can only get 4G variants. For instance, the recently launched P50 series came with the Snapdragon 888 4G. Now, two more Huawei devices with Snapdragon chipsets are on the way.

HUAWEI could be taking small steps to free itself from the US trade ban as it's reported that the Chinese company could be allowed to purchase chips from the country again. However, the chips are not for smartphones but car parts such as video screens and sensors. Therefore, you might need to put the thought of the company gaining back its access to the Qualcomm chips or even Android on hold.

HONOR will soon launch its first premium flagship smartphone series after being sold off by HUAWEI. The Magic 3 series will be arriving on 12 August with many impressive tech specs like a penta-camera setup, under-display camera, 100W fast charging and more. For software, the latest report claims that the smartphone series could use Magic UI 5.0 based on HarmonyOS.