Huawei Balong chips are manufactured by TSMC.
Taiwan Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., LTD., Chinese abbreviation: tsmc, English abbreviation: TSMC, is a semiconductor manufacturing company. Founded in 1987, it is the world's first professional integrated circuit manufacturing service (foundry) company, with its headquarters and main factory located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, China.
The Balon chips are manufactured by Taiwan's MediaTek, using TSMC's 12-nanometer process. This contract manufacturing model is very common in the semiconductor industry, because many companies may not have their own fabs, but need to send the designed chips to the foundry for manufacturing.
Huawei Company
The Balong chip is made in China, which is a mobile phone baseband chip developed and produced by Huawei. The Balong chip installed on the Kirin 980 processor can reach a maximum download rate of 1.4Gbps.
Huawei, the Balong 5000 is Huawei's first generation 5G chip