Honor, the smartphone sub-brand under the Huawei Consumer Business Group, is launching two new smartphones in its home market of China: the aptly named Honor X10 Max and the Honor 30 Lite. The X10 Max has a tablet-esque 7.09-inch display, while the 30 Lite has a “smaller” 6.5-inch display. One of the most interesting features of these new phones is that they are powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 800 chip.
Back in May of this year, the U.S. government blocked many chip makers from supplying chips to Huawei. This meant that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), one of the largest contract chip makers, was blocked from fabricating Huawei’s HiSilicon chips. Thus, Huawei and Honor had to look elsewhere to procure chips