Huawei's new Mate 70 smartphone contains a chip whose design shows only an "incremental improvement" over its predecessor and, contrary to some expectations, was made using the 7 nanometer (nm) process node,

The Huawei Mate 70 is a 100% Made in China smartphone, the company's CEO said. Huawei managed to reach that level of autonomy.

Huawei Technologies Co’s latest flagship smartphone is powered by a chip little different from the one that set off alarm bells in Washington a year ago, signalling a slowdown in the Chinese company’s tech advances.

The executive claims this is a testament of the company's true autonomy. Huawei launched the Mate 70 series two weeks ago, and today, the company

Huawei Mate 70: "The Kirin 9020 processor is not a dramatic redesign but rather an incremental improvement over its predecessor, the Kirin 9010," it said.