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HUAWEI ROLLS OUT IPHONE RIVAL. THIS TECH GIANT has eaten into Apple's market in China after chip upgrade.

Last year, the tech giant Huawei catapulted to the top of the smartphone market in China when it released the Mate60 Pro, a phone that contained a tiny computer chip more advanced than any previously made by a Chinese company.

The chips used by Huawei's smartphones have become a symbol in the struggle between China and the United States for control over advanced technology.

Policymakers in Washington have spent years trying to prevent Chinese companies from being able to make the kind of chip Huawei uses in its Mate phone. But Huawei has pressed ahead, and the phone has burnished its image as a national leader, triumphant in the face of U.S. restrictions.

Shoppers in China were excited to buy a phone with state-of-the-art components that had been made entirely at home. Huawei was able to appeal to Chinese customers / students who previously would have been more likely to buy iPhones, eating into Apple's most important market outside the U.S.

Last Tuesday, Huawei unveiled the next generation of that iPhone, the Mate 70 series, at its offices in Shenzhen, in southeastern China. Richard Yu, Huawei's consumer group chairman, called the flagship device the ''smartest'' Mate phone.

Powered by its homegrown operating system, HarmonyOS Next, which was officially launched last month, the Mate 70 series has artificial intelligence - enabled functions, including improved photography, live transcription and translation of phone calls.

'' Apple has yet to release its A.I. features in China. '' Starting at $760, the price of Mate is meant to compete with the iPhone in China.  HarmonyOS Next allows phones to connect with Huawei's other other products : electric cars, smart speakers and watches.

But widespread commercial success for the Mate 70 could depend on Huawei's ability to secure a steady supply of chips.

The company relied on the Chinese chip maker  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, to make the chips in the Mate 60 Pro, SMIC, which is partly state owned, is the only maker of advanced chips in China.

A critical question is how advanced the chips are, because that could determine whether they can perform more sophisticated tasks like A.I. at a faster speed.

U.S. officials seeking to control China's chip development say advanced technology is essential not only for consumer technology like chatbots but also for military superiority.

They have tried to prevent Chinese companies from buying these kinds of chips and related machinery, leaving SMIC dependent on dated tools.

'' Huawei's goal over the past few years has been consistent - to reclaim some of the market share that iPhone holds in China,'' Ms. Chang said.

Huawei faces stiff competition from domestic rivals like Xiaomi and Oppo, which sell less expensive devices. To compete, Huawei will need to sell more midrange models, too, said Toby Zhu, a senior analyst at Canalys.

But even those devices will require a large number of chips. And as foreign chip makers  like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, stop sending chips to Chinese clients, this could become increasingly difficult as more companies will depend on SMIC for advanced chips.

'' Not only Huawei but now all China-based A.I. makers, they face the same issue,'' said Linda Sui, a senior director at TechInsights, a market research firm. ''If they all ship through SMIC, that's going to make the supply constraints even worse next year.''

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