Consumer Tech

Huawei is likely to hold a global launch of the Mate40 series in mid-October, and it will release the Hisilicon Kirin 9000 series SoCs before then, Weibo digital blogger @鹏鹏君驾到 said today.

ZHITA, a sub-brand of China's top memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory, released two SSDs for the first time on September 10. Among the new products, one is the PC005 Active drive with PCIe technology and the other is the SC001 Active drive with SATA  interface.

The Vivo smartwatch Vivo Watch could be released in less than two months, with the men's edition sporting a 46mm round dial, according to information posted by a Weibo digital blogger.

In a letter to its partners in China, Liu Bo, Chinese smartphone maker OPPO's vice president and president of China region, announced today that OPPO's first smart TV product will be released soon, while the next-generation Find series models are expected to be launched in the first quarter of next year.

Huawei has recently notified its supply chain that it will be revising Mate40 shipments down by as much as 30 percent, DigiTimes reported on Monday.

Huawei has unveiled the Y9a smartphone, which is a tweaked variant of the Changxiang 20 Plus that was recently launched in China.

As a result of Covid-19, global smartphone shipments this year will be 1.26 billion units, down 11 percent from last year, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics.

As the Huawei Mate40 gets closer to launch, more information is starting to come out.

Samsung's only TV factory in the Chinese mainland could be shut down at the end of October and sold to a TV foundry, laoyaoba.com quoted a source as saying.

During today's IFA2020, Honor announced two smartwatches - the Honor Watch GS Pro and Honor Watch ES - priced from €249.9 and €99.9 respectively.