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xFusion, the server business spun off from Huawei's x86 unit in 2021, has cleared the ChiNext IPO review in just 174 days. The company posted RMB 43.5 billion in 2024 revenue and over RMB 30 billion in H1 2025, ranking second in China's x86 server market with a 12.7% share and first in liquid-cooled servers for two consecutive years. Proceeds will fund next-generation compute R&D across AI, compute, data and energy.

Huawei's Xiaoyi AI Quick Bar, a Dock-resident assistant feature first teased at the HarmonyOS 7 launch, has slipped again from late October to mid-November 2026, starting with the Mate 90 series and Pura X View. A two-wave December rollout will extend it to Mate 80, Pura 90 and MatePad devices, limited to models with 12GB RAM or more.

IDC reports China tablet shipments reached 6.6 million units in Q3 2026, down 22.3% year over year, the steepest decline since Q1 2020 and the first sub-7-million quarter in 12 quarters. Consumer shipments fell 24.9% amid price hikes, while commercial grew 9.6% but restocking is winding down; IDC expects cost pressure to persist through 2028.

The article benchmarks two system-level algorithm capabilities in HarmonyOS 7 (API 26) FAST Kit within a single reproducible project: natural-language sorting and 4096-point real FFT. Sorting shows a clear time advantage on lists of 10k+ items, while FFT runs at roughly 0.02-0.03 ms per call, though both expose only Native C APIs requiring custom NAPI bridging and leave windowing and amplitude calibration to the app.

Huawei's new sub-brand OSTA has released its first teaser video under the slogan 'Come As You Are,' with an official debut set for November 20 at the HarmonyOS Smart Mobility launch event. The first batch is expected to include the O1 and O1 Pro, the latter featuring a Kirin 9-series chip and a 6.39-inch 1.5K flat display, sold through both online and offline channels.

Huawei has open-sourced MACaQ, an internal model-agnostic calibrated quantizer that spans text, image, video and audio models across llama.cpp, vLLM, Diffusers and PyTorch backends. It claims to quantize a 122B-parameter model in 64 minutes using only 32.5 GB of device memory, and to match MR-GPTQ and DuQuant++ perplexity on Llama-3-8B with 11x less quantization time.

Huawei has scheduled a November 20, 2026 event for the Maextro V8 and its new Xingmang brand. The V8, Maextro's first MPV, starts at 329,800 yuan and ships standard with an 800V platform, ±12° rear-wheel steering and Huawei's Qiankun ADAS; Ultra trims add four lidars and an L3-capable architecture.

A developer finds that used Redmi 13C 5G and Huawei Mate 30 5G phones, costing only ¥300-500, already pack 40-50MP cameras, GPS, storage, battery and USB-C, replacing a costly Raspberry Pi plus Arducam plus GPS stack. By rooting the phone and running the Moth Rig app over USB-C to an LED controller, the author validates old smartphones as viable embedded project controllers.

Huawei will hold an on-site kickoff for trials of its new storage system on November 12 in Gui'an, Guizhou, marking the technology's entry into joint validation in real-world scenarios. The architecture fuses magnetic and electrical storage to tackle the explosive growth of warm and cold data such as AI corpora in the Agentic AI era, aiming to break through the cost, energy and efficiency limits of conventional storage. No capacity, performance figures or trial scale have been disclosed yet.

The article walks through a magazine-style product detail demo that combines a Flutter native shell with an H5 section rendered by HarmonyOS ArkWeb on a single page, connected via a custom bidirectional JSBridge that exposes login state, device info, Toast and file picker to the web layer. The author also recounts two pitfalls—an instant crash at launch and a silently failing copy action—making it a hands-on field report for developers adapting Flutter to HarmonyOS.