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Android Authority's Edgar Cervantes reviewed the Huawei Watch D3, a €449 square-cased aluminum smartwatch, after several weeks of use. The review highlights its premium build, comfortable 40g case, strong battery life and health-tracking features, while noting it lacks official Google support due to the ongoing US trade ban on Huawei.
Under the Trump administration, the FCC has moved beyond its longstanding restrictions on Chinese telecom gear to block future imports of foreign-made drones, routers, robots (including robovacs) and power inverters unless companies secure a waiver. The agency cites national security risks but has not published evidence supporting the claims, nor addressed devices already in use in American homes.
Counterpoint Research reports China's overall smartphone shipments fell 10% year-over-year in Q3 2026, marking a 14-year low. Apple's share rose 4.8 percentage points to 19.5%, moving it from sixth to second place behind Huawei, which gained 5.3 points to lead with 21.3%. Vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi, and HONOR all lost share during the quarter.
The FCC has blocked US sales and marketing of a dashboard camera and a wireless video transmitter, marking the first enforcement of a new rule that bans devices based on their internal chips rather than brand or model. Both products use the HiSilicon Hi3516CV610 Smart Vision SoC, which includes facial-detection and AI video analysis features. HiSilicon is a Huawei subsidiary, and Huawei entities are listed on the FCC's Covered List of national security risks.
The FCC used its new authority, granted October 13th, to block two unnamed gadgets for containing a HiVision Hi3516CV610 chip, which it labels a 'foreign surveillance chip.' HiVision is a subsidiary of Huawei, already on the FCC's Covered List of national security threats, and the chip is commonly paired with Sony camera sensors in security cameras and dashcams sold on sites like AliExpress.
IDC reports China's overall smartphone shipments fell 15.4% year-over-year in Q3 2026, with Apple's iPhone shipments down 4.3% but its market share rising to 17.8% from 15.8% a year earlier. Huawei posted the strongest results, growing shipments 17.3% year-over-year to capture 21.1% share, while Wiko's shipments collapsed 74%.
The Financial Times reports that Chinese tech companies purchased more than one million Nvidia gaming and workstation GPUs over the past year to cover a shortfall in AI computing capacity. Citing industry insiders, the report says domestic AI chip output has roughly doubled but still falls nearly 1.5 million units short of demand exceeding 5 million chips. Buyers are reportedly repurposing export-compliant Nvidia models like the RTX Pro 6000D, RTX Pro 5000 and RTX 5090 for simpler AI workloads such as prefilling.
Huawei introduced its Mate 90 series smartphones featuring its own LogicFolding chip on October 1, 2026, aiming to regain overseas market share. The company’s CEO Richard Yu emphasized plans to expand HarmonyOS internationally and develop self-sufficient chip manufacturing to support future device sales outside China. This marks Huawei’s first engagement with foreign media since 2019, when U.S. sanctions severely restricted its access to key technologies.
Qualcomm has agreed to a multiyear cross-license deal with Huawei covering patents tied to LogicFolding, the chip-stacking method used in Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro, according to Bloomberg. The agreement reportedly spans 5G devices, AI services, optics and networking, and Qualcomm also plans to buy specific Huawei U.S. patents in compute, AI and networking technology. Neither company's public statements named LogicFolding or any specific chip, and the deal still requires approval.
Qualcomm has entered into a multi-year agreement to license patents from Huawei, covering 5G, AI, and networking technologies, and will acquire some of Huawei’s U.S. patents pending regulatory approval. This marks a historic reversal, as Huawei previously paid Qualcomm for patents, but now Qualcomm is paying Huawei for the first time. The deal also includes cross-licensing of various technology portfolios without involving chip sales or other business cooperation.
Huawei and Qualcomm have entered into a broad, multi-year patent licensing deal, according to reports. The agreement covers patent rights between the two companies over an extended period, though specific financial terms were not disclosed.
Qualcomm and Huawei have entered into a multiyear agreement that includes a cross-license covering 5G, AI, compute, and networking technologies. Additionally, Qualcomm will acquire a selection of Huawei's US patents related to these fields. The deal's financial terms and specific patent details remain undisclosed, and regulatory approval is pending.