Huawei Technologies Co. will captivate China’s technology industry once again with the upcoming launch of what it calls “The Most Powerful Mate in History,” smartphone, which is expected to launch for consumers in the coming weeks. This launch will heat up the competition in the Chinese handset market – the world’s largest – putting pressure on other domestic brands and Apple.  “The most powerful Mate in history! See you in November!” Huawei’s consumer group chairman, Richard Yu, wrote in a short post on Chinese social media platform Weibo.  Yu’s post on Weibo was short and brief. He did not elaborate on the details of Huawei’s next flagship smartphone, Mate 70, or launch timelines.  Western countries (as well as corporations and governments) will closely watch the Mate 70 launch because a teardown shortly after the Mate 60 launch last August showed the smartphone used an advanced 7-nanometre chip made by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. In other words, Huawei overcame US sanctions that were designed to suppress development. “The Shenzhen-based firm has readied more than 1 million units of the Mate 70 for the coming release,” the South China Morning Post wrote in a note on Monday.  Patriotic fervor has swept across China and lifted Huawei sales as consumers ditch iPhones amid Apple Intelligence’s dismal iPhone 16 launch in the world’s largest handset market. The latest data from International […]