Tuesday, May 5th 2020
Huawei Ready to Enter PC Industry with Custom OS and Processor
Since the debut of its plans to create a custom Operating System and make itself independent from everyone, Huawei has been working hard to bring that idea to life. Creating custom software and custom hardware solutions, Huawei's engineers have been rather busy. And now, Huawei aims to be the new player in the Chinese PC industry, replacing the already available solutions that have foreign technology with potential backdoors that could represent a threat to Chinese information security. So to prepare for that, Huawei is creating a custom OS called HarmonyOS that will accompany custom hardware solutions.
The HarmonyOS was announced last year at Huawei Developer Conference 2019 (HDC 2019) as a project Huawei is working on. However, it seems like that project will become some of the more important things the company is working on. A well-known person for tipping about the latest industry news on Weibo said that Huawei is preparing to launch custom PCs very soon for domestic (Chinese) audience. Huawei is supposedly working with major cities and regions in China to supply its infrastructure with new solutions. And what those solutions will be? Well, Huawei plans to combine the HarmonyOS with its already launched Kunpeng Desktop Board.
Specifications of the Kunpeng Desktop Board:
Source:
Huawei Central
The HarmonyOS was announced last year at Huawei Developer Conference 2019 (HDC 2019) as a project Huawei is working on. However, it seems like that project will become some of the more important things the company is working on. A well-known person for tipping about the latest industry news on Weibo said that Huawei is preparing to launch custom PCs very soon for domestic (Chinese) audience. Huawei is supposedly working with major cities and regions in China to supply its infrastructure with new solutions. And what those solutions will be? Well, Huawei plans to combine the HarmonyOS with its already launched Kunpeng Desktop Board.
- Processor - Kunpeng 920 processor with 4/8 cores running at 2.6 GHz
- Storage - 6xSATA 3.0 hard drive interfaces, 2xM.2 SSD slots
- Memory - 4xDDR4-2400 UDIMM slots, maximum capacity 64 GB
- PCIe Expansion - 1xPCIe 3.0 x16, 1xPCIe 3.0 x4, and 1xPCIe 3.0 x1 slots
- Networking - 2xLOM NIC, supporting GE network ports or optical ports
- USB - 4xUSB 3.0 and 4xUSB 2.0
41 Comments on Huawei Ready to Enter PC Industry with Custom OS and Processor
What could possibly go wrong?
If it shares the same Taishan cores manufactured on TSMC N7, then this is just a low-effort repackaged submission to appease Xi's ambitious Chinese-made-for-China hardware goals, and involves no new or interesting IP. China doesn't care if you think it's competitive, as long as it's good enough for them to use in government offices. Their priority is not to sell this shit to you; they just want to kick all foreign-made hardware out to appease Xi's lofty ambitions and their own patriotic ego.
HarmonyOS is the more interesting of the two, as depending on who you ask, it's either geared for IoT usage, or a just-in-case fallback to replace Android on Huawei phones. Not that it's any more a viable or secure choice for us outside of China, but something to look into for sure.
They didn't want to use an O.S. full of backdoors made by a company with close ties to the American Government.
Don't buy Chinese if you can!
Bad mockup designer? :p
Shame the Ruskies are still in the 5mm (don't confuse with nm) era. I'd love me to have a system that only dear tavarish Putin can sneak into.
Or that Chinese OS, what could possibly go wrong...
Hurry, before it sells out!
Other than that... there will be plenty of buyers for this... including near east hiding from uncle Sam.
Down with the copper! Viva le fibre!
I have a chance to play with Huawei's new Taishan. It's a really nice CPU TBH, even for an ARM one. Its design, esp. security-wise makes more sense to me too.