Since the Launch of the Kirin P50 series was held in July 2021, Huawei has always given people a feeling of "running out of food". P50 is equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 chip, and although the P50 Pro uses the Kirin 9000 5G chip, it is still sold with the Snapdragon 888, and because the RF chip is out of stock, it only supports 4G. Combined with the previous "volume sales" on the folding screen mobile phone MateX2, it is difficult not to make people think that "there is little left in the Kirin 9000".
Huawei
Huawei's weakness
By 2022, Huawei's operations will be more "real". On the one hand, Huawei has played a cost-effective strategy. The mid-range Nova9SE suddenly came up at a low price, using a 100 million pixel camera that even Huawei's flagship was not blessed with, which was outrageous. The last time I saw a 100 million-pixel lens, xiaomi used 100 million pixels as a gimmick in order to impact the high-end market. At the same time, the flagship P50E has reduced its price and replaced it with Qualcomm's mid-range chip Snapdragon 778G, so that the pricing has been forced to approach 4,000 yuan indefinitely.
P50 for
On the other hand, Huawei seems to be planning to rely on the Snapdragon 888 to fight the world. At the press conference on March 16, Huawei put on three "coats" for the P50 Pro launched in 2021, calling it "new product". In addition to the extra three colors of Galaxy Blue, Cloud Brocade White and Danxia Orange, the biggest change is the chip. The original combination of "Snapdragon 888 + Kirin 9000" has become a pure Snapdragon 888, 8 + 512G Yunjin white version, and even sold to 7488 yuan. At this price point, it was once equipped with a Kirin 9000 chip.
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Huawei showed two more hole cards
More and more limited inventory, with "4000 yuan Snapdragon 778G + 7000 yuan Snapdragon 888" new pricing strategy, in fact, can already be concluded. But at the same time, Huawei quietly did two big things, completely muddying the water. One is that in late February, the Huawei Mall was launched, equipped with the Huawei Mate40E Pro of Kirin 9000L 5G. This is the first appearance of the chip, but it crackles the face of a person with a heart. Kirin 5000L supports 5G, it is destined to be only foundry by TSMC, but when TSMC will do it, and whether there is any other 5nm Kirin, no one knows.
Kirin 9000
The second is that on March 24, the IT home came to the news that Huawei Mate X3 was on the network. The folding screen phone model is PAL-AL00, which will continue to be equipped with the Kirin 9000 chip and support the Hongmeng operating system. This is interesting, said good ten million Kirin 9000 inventory, how to calculate should also be used up, why the third generation of folding screen mobile phone can also carry Kirin 9000? Since the inventory of kirin 9000 is still strong, why does Huawei prefer to bear the name of the name and adopt the pricing strategy of double Qualcomm? When the original inventory was revealed, who released it?
Ren
If you can't bear it, you will be chaotic
The author believes that this seemingly disorderly layout is precisely what Ren Zhengfei deliberately did. Of course, they can sell the Kirin 9000 in large quantities, leaving a tragic, falling back, but this is not conducive to the overall situation. As long as the inventory of Kirin 9000 is unknown for a day, Qualcomm will not be able to ask for a price. As long as the inventory of Kirin 9000 is unknown for a day, there will still be a large number of netizens to pay attention to the new products released by Huawei. What's more, at present, it is the critical period for Hongmeng to break through the life and death line of 300 million installed capacity, and the Kirin 9000 must be on top. (Li Shuangxi)