Huawei launches Qingyun HM650, its first HarmonyOS desktop, billed as China's first fully home-grown PC

Huawei unveiled its Qingyun HM650 series of desktop computers at a HarmonyOS office industry summit in Wuhan on November 5, powered by its own Kirin X90 processor and running HarmonyOS 1.0 Enterprise Edition. Huawei says the series is China's first desktop to be certified as 100% domestically made, with Chinese-made parts from the processor and memory to the power supply and Wi-Fi module. The machines are aimed at government and enterprise buyers, with no retail sale and no overseas launch announced. (Photo: file photo of a Huawei HarmonyOS desktop computer, not the HM650 itself.)

Kirin X90 ten-core chip; HarmonyOS reaches the desktop

The HM650 line comes in two versions — the HM650 for commercial buyers and the HM650G for government users — both built around the Kirin X90, a 10-core, 20-thread chip designed by Huawei's HiSilicon arm and paired with Maleoon 910 graphics; an 8-core version is also offered. Zhu Dongdong, president of Huawei's tablet and PC product line, told the summit that the machine reached full domestic sourcing through in-house development of core technologies, joint development of key parts and large-scale production of general-purpose hardware. Huawei says hardware-software integration delivers a 15% performance gain. It is the first time HarmonyOS has been put on a desktop; the enterprise edition supports HarmonyOS AI, Xiaoyi Work, Xiaoyi Deep Research and Xiaoyi Notes. Huawei also said cumulative HarmonyOS computer shipments have passed one million units, with more than 21,000 compatible applications.

Scope of the "100% domestic" certification not fully public

Reports say the 100% domestic-content certification was issued by Zhejiang Kezheng Electronic Information Product Inspection, and that the Kirin X90 and HarmonyOS have each previously passed Level II evaluations under China's safety and reliability assessment system. The same reporting notes that the exact scope of the certification has not been made public, and that "100% domestic" should not be read as proof that every underlying architecture, patent or technology in the machine was independently developed in China. Reported pricing in China starts at 6,899 yuan for the 8-core HM650G with 16GB of memory.

A self-reliance play under US export controls

The HM650 uses no Intel or Qualcomm chip and no Windows, landing squarely in China's push for technological self-reliance under US export restrictions. Huawei has not published a full specification sheet or full pricing, and has not announced an overseas launch timetable. Analysts note the machine's significance lies mainly in the government and enterprise procurement market — desktop replacement demand in finance, energy and other sectors — rather than in the consumer market.