The Huawei Mate 70 chip is not what you think. A recent teardown has revealed it's not a 5nm chip that was rumored.

Intel's CFO, currently one of its interim CEOs, says Intel is already separating its manufacturing business' finances from the rest of the company.

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,

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, signaling a slowdown in the Chinese company's tech advances.

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, consultancy TechInsights said on Wednesday.

Huawei reportedly decided not to use its 5nm and 6nm process technologies for its latest smartphone processor.