As we all know, The rise of Huawei touched the interests of Americans, so it was subject to unreasonable suppression and sanctions from the United States. If Huawei wants to break through the US blockade, the key is to build a de-beautified supply chain. For smartphones, the system and chip are the two most core parts. In terms of systems, Huawei has long been made. After being sanctioned by the United States, Huawei's Hongmeng system , as a spare tire, has become a regular one. Now it has more than 300 million users, successfully passing the life and death line of a new system.
In terms of chips, although Huawei started to develop its own chips more than 10 years ahead of schedule, due to the complex industrial chain involved in chips, high-end chips such as Huawei Kirin 9000 are only strong in design. Once the United States cut off its supply, the backward domestic chip industry chain dragged back and could not produce advanced chips on its own. However, in recent years, Huawei has also taken active actions and has laid out related links in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain through its Hubble investment. On September 15, Shanghai officially announced the breakthrough of the lithography machine in China and the mass production of 14nm process. It is estimated that Huawei will have domestic high-end chips to use.
In fact, in addition to the system and chip, there is another component on the mobile phone that has always been monopolized by American companies. I don’t know if you are paying attention. A few days ago, Huawei released a new phone, Mate50, has a highlight, which is that it is equipped with Kunlun Glass, which is more resistant to falling. If you look closely, this Kunlun Glass does not show that it looks as simple as it seems. Some foreign media in said that Huawei has taken another key step forward and must be stopped!
Now, whether it is Apple iPhone, Samsung mobile phone , or domestic mobile phone brands, almost without exception are Corning Gorilla Glass. Corning Glass is a super giant in the United States and has a history of 170 years. In the era when Edison invented electric lights, it was the only glass supplier. Corning has developed a glass with extremely low expansion coefficient to help NASA create the world's first 200-inch astronomical telescope , becoming the strongest king in the glass field.
Later, the lenses of Hubble Telescope , lenses of the US optical reconnaissance satellite, lenses of spacecraft and International Space Station portholes all use Corning's glass; the US Rattlesnake air-to-air missiles also widely use Corning's high-temperature resistant optical glass ; the lenses of the EUV lithography machine giant ASML, although they are made by German Zeiss , but the glass used is also Corning. In the sub-field of EUV mask version, Corning is also a monopoly.
The common application of Corning glass on mobile phones started with the Razer V3 of Motorola and became famous on Apple iPhone. Corning borrowed the technology of helicopter windshield and worked with Apple for 2 years, and finally created Gorilla Glass! Apple is the weather vane of the mobile phone industry. Under Apple's strong appeal, almost all mobile phone manufacturers in the world have begun to use Gorilla Glass . Corning made a fortune in silence and made a lot of money. The Corning glass of each mobile phone is around 100 to 150 yuan, even more than Qualcomm chips.
Seeing that profitable, some major glass manufacturers have challenged Corning, such as Germany's Schott and Japan's Asahi Glass . They have tried to produce mobile phone screen glass, but they have all fallen behind in the competition with Corning. The reason why Huawei is admirable is that Huawei always dares to challenge the overlords in various fields. Huawei developed Kunlun Glass, which should be the preparation for the future launch of 5G mobile phones.
If Huawei solves the 5G problem in the future and can produce 5G mobile phones, the United States will definitely increase sanctions. Corning Gorilla Glass is a very important weight, so Kunlun Glass' "turning into a positive" is an important step for Huawei to get rid of the US supply chain. As long as Huawei's courage to fight against the old American cannon is still there, the return of the king is just around the corner!
