The Kirin chip was initially produced by Samsung and Mediatek in South Korea, and was 100% produced by Mediatek in the later stage.
Huawei Kirin chip is limited by the lack of lithography machine and has to find other manufacturers to produce, and the domestic lithography machine manufacturing process can not meet the production of Kirin chip. Samsung can not OEM official explanation is limited production capacity, can not accept Huawei more chip business and give up orders. Then can only rely on Mediatek, also reached the foundry rate of 100%.
The Kirin processor was designed and manufactured by China's Huawei and then contracted by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. At present, his most powerful processor is the Kirin 9000 processor, which uses the five-nanometer manufacturing process of the open machine, and its running points can reach more than 700,000, and it is full of flash memory and memory, and it also supports the wireless network enhancement mode of WiFi 6.