Huawei steps up Tau chip roll-out, with Mate XT 2 on track for 1 million sales
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The Chinese tech giant plans to use its self-developed advanced chips across the new Mate 90 series as it overcomes stringent US tech curbs
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Iris Deng in Shenzhen Published: 11:00am, 1 Oct 2026
Huawei Technologies is making rapid progress in rolling out a new breed of advanced chip based on its self-developed Tau Scaling Law, with the Chinese company set to adopt the processors across the newly released Mate 90 smartphone series.
The roll-out marks another step forward in the Chinese tech giant’s push to overcome stringent US export curbs, which has seen Huawei rewire its smartphone business to run on home-grown technology.
Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Huawei consumer business chief Richard Yu Chengdong said the company had already shipped about 100,000 Mate XT 2 trifold phones since the model’s release on September 12.
The new handset – the first to integrate mobile processors adopting the LogicFolding architecture based on Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law chip design principle – is on track to surpass 1 million in total sales, and Huawei plans to launch the phone in markets across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and potentially Europe, according to Yu.
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