Huawei to improve supply of all key smartphone components
World’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier is working out how its supply chains can be improved, including making many of its own parts
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Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier, is fleshing out plans to improve the supply of all its key smartphone components, after a shortage of advanced flash memory systems stifled its pace of production, causing customer complaints.
“After looking into the [flash memory] incident, we have determined to solve the shortage issues within our own supply chains,” Yu Chengdong, Huawei’s consumer business group chief told media in Shenzhen.
“We are laying out plans for all our key smartphone parts. Huawei might not manufacture these components directly, but it doesn’t mean we do not own the technology to manufacture them ourselves,” said Yu.
He was responding to a recent row regarding Huawei’s flagship model P10 and its variant P10 Plus, which were found to be equipped with two types of flash memories, including eMMC card and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) card.
The speed of UFS storage is up to three times higher than eMMC memory, which is crucial for playing the high-resolution games and media contents.