Huawei Technologies has introduced the first desktop PC that it says is fully sourced from mainland China technologies, including Huawei’s own HarmonyOS operating system and Kirin CPU, amid a push in China for greater technological self-reliance.

The company said that the use of software, processor, memory and other components made in China made it the country’s first desktop system to be certified as “100 percent domestic”, although the exact scope of the certification is unclear.

The Qinyun HM650 series desktop, introduced on 5 November, is aimed at enterprise and government users and uses the Kirin X90 processor from Huawei’s HiSilicon chip-design unit.

Huawei began using the chip in consumer laptops and tablets last year, after the US in 2024 revoked special licences that had allowed it to buy older Intel and Qualcomm processors for laptops and smartphones.

Most of Huawei’s consumer laptops previously used Intel Core processors, with some using Qualcomm Snapdragon chips.

The new desktop uses HarmonyOS V1.0, an enterprise version of the operating system that Huawei initially developed for its smartphones, following US sanctions that barred it from using Google’s Android.

Tech competition

HarmonyOS hasn’t previously been deployed on desktops, according to Huawei, but it said it has sold 1 million PCs in other form factors using the operating system to date, with the figure expected to rise to 1.2 million by the end of the year.

Huawei is also one of the front-runners developing domestic AI chips and clustered systems to compete with technology from Nvidia.