Huawei says its new Qingyun HM650 desktop is built entirely from Chinese components. It uses its own Kirin X90 chip and HarmonyOS in place of Intel and Windows. The Register reported that it’s unclear whether every one of those parts also uses a Chinese design.
The reasoning is that many non-Chinese companies still run factories in China, so a part made there isn’t necessarily a Chinese design. Beijing has ordered government bodies to move away from Wintel machines, and a single government agency has reportedly committed to 600 of them.
Huawei unveiled the desktop on 5 November 2026 at the HarmonyOS Office Industry Summit in Wuhan. Zhu Dongdong, president of Huawei’s tablet and PC product line, announced that the series had earned “100% localisation certification”. Huawei says Zhejiang Kezheng Electronic Information Product Inspection verified the components. Notebookcheck reads the label narrowly: the parts are domestically made, but that doesn’t mean Huawei designed every one. AI Weekly, citing the South China Morning Post, says the certification’s exact scope is unclear.
Kirin X90 and HarmonyOS
The Kirin X90 has 10 cores, 20 threads, and a 2.3 GHz clock speed, paired with a Maleoon 910 GPU. Huawei rates the chip at 40W TDP, well below the 65W to 125W range of a typical desktop processor. The standard configuration ships with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.
The software is HarmonyOS V1.0 Enterprise Edition. Huawei’s own lab tests put the gain from combining hardware and software at 15%. It also says more than 21,000 apps now work with HarmonyOS. That figure covers the whole ecosystem, not apps tested on the HM650. It’s unclear whether the HM650 runs native Windows apps.
There are two versions: the HM650 for businesses and the HM650G for government, with eight-core or 10-core options. Reports disagree on price: Techgenyz and others give a starting price of 6,899 yuan, while Notebookcheck lists 7,199 yuan (about $1,080). Reports say sales will start on 1 December, and only through commercial channels, not retail stores.
Sources report no sales outside China, so Gulf buyers are still choosing among Windows PCs built on Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm chips. The HM650 has no Intel or Qualcomm chip and no Windows. For Apple’s iPads, see our guide to the best iPad in the UAE.
The desktop joins the Qingyun L420z laptop and sits alongside Huawei’s sanctions-driven chip work, from its 1.4nm roadmap to a reported DRAM fab. Huawei says it has shipped more than 1 million HarmonyOS computers since its 2025 launch. Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are already squeezed by a shrinking PC market. The Register notes that China’s government is a big buyer, and “losing the chance to bid for its business is unlikely to be helpful.”
