According to reports, a Huawei supplier revealed that it has been notified to reduce production. It is expected that Huawei’s mobile phone shipments will drop by more than 60% this year!

According to reports, Huawei plans to order 70 million to 80 million smartphone components this year, which is a huge drop compared to the shipment of 189 million smartphones in 2020.  Moreover, due to Huawei’s lack of a license to import parts and components of 5G models from the United States, Huawei’s parts orders are restricted to the scope of 4G.

The supply of the 8 million Kirin 9000 chips that Huawei stocked before was discontinued. Some of them are used on Huawei P40, and some are reserved for the upcoming new P50 and Mate 50.  Huawei will extend the life cycle of its mobile phone business with limited chips, which is the basic strategy of Huawei’s mobile phone business.

Some netizens reported that they can no longer buy flagship phones equipped with Kirin 9000 chips such as Huawei Mate 40 online and offline, and even nove7, nove8 and Huawei’s notebook matebook14 are no longer available. Some consumers who have successfully ordered have also been notified by Huawei’s online platform that they “cancelled their orders due to out of stock.” The occurrence of order cuts also shows that Huawei’s existing mobile phones are seriously insufficient. According to people familiar with the industry, Huawei’s offline stores are currently out of stock, and the lack of sales has caused dealers to “hard-hold”.

In spite of this, Huawei does not seem to intend to give up its mobile phone business. It is scheduled to hold a press conference in the near future to launch the Mate X2 folding screen mobile phone, which is equipped with a Kirin 9000 processor and is said to adopt a book-style internal folding ID design.

In addition, there have been rumors that Huawei intends to sell the P series and Mate series product lines. Undoubtedly, the holding of the Mate X2 conference can be said to be a powerful counterattack.

It is worth mentioning that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei also emphasized in an interview a few days ago that Huawei will never sell its terminal business.