Huawei Ships Its First HarmonyOS Desktop, a Kirin X90 Machine Certified 100 Percent Domestically Sourced

Huawei used its HarmonyOS office summit in Wuhan on Nov. 5 to launch the Qinyun HM650 series, its first desktop PC running HarmonyOS, and said the machine is the first PC certified as carrying 100 percent domestically sourced components.

The box runs Huawei's own Kirin X90, a 10-core, 20-thread CPU, paired with HarmonyOS V1.0 and the company's Ark engine. Huawei claims a 15 percent overall performance gain from the software, hardware, chip and cloud stack, a 1GB PowerPoint that opens in seconds, 2.5GB archives that extract without a wait, and a memory-compression feature that raises the number of large files open at once by 40 percent. There are two variants: HM650 for enterprise buyers and HM650g for government accounts.

The sourcing claim is the headline. Zhu Dongdong, president of Huawei's tablet and PC product line, said the 100 percent domestic bill of materials came from three tracks - full in-house development of core parts, joint development with suppliers on key components, and volume commitments that let general-purpose parts makers scale. "If you don't believe it, you can take it apart," he said at the event. Huawei says both the Kirin X90 and HarmonyOS V1.0 hold China's Level II safety and reliability certification, and that the HarmonyOS kernel has CC EAL 6+.

Security features are aimed squarely at government buyers: chip-level full-disk encryption, controlled data access, encrypted file sharing, and on-device detection of AI face-swap and voice-cloning attempts. The Xiaoyi agent is wired into the operating system rather than bolted on. Xiaoyi Work can connect to DingTalk and Feishu and produce editable Word, PowerPoint and Excel output, while Xiaoyi Huiji runs meeting transcription, speaker separation and minutes on a local model so that classified audio never leaves the machine.

Huawei also shipped HarmonyOS PC Enterprise Edition, with zero-touch provisioning that the company says deploys 10 times faster than conventional imaging, grouped gray-scale OS updates so IT can validate a build on a subset of machines, full lifecycle device management, and a dual-space design that isolates corporate and personal environments on a single device with approval required for transfers between them.

The ecosystem figures are Huawei's: more than 1 million HarmonyOS PCs shipped cumulatively and more than 21,000 native HarmonyOS PC applications. Professional software support was demonstrated with ZW3D for CAD, CAE and CAM work plus simulation loads such as CyberSIM, which is the part that matters for mechanical, electrical and mold design teams. Huawei also showed the Qinyun C7 third-generation commercial tablet running HarmonyOS 7.

With the desktop, HarmonyOS PCs now cover three form factors - laptop, foldable and desktop - and the domestic supply chain covers chip, operating system and components in one product. That is a genuine milestone for China's PC industry, which has spent years substituting pieces without ever assembling a fully domestic machine at volume.

The open question is software depth rather than silicon. Government and state-owned enterprise procurement is driven by certification and control, which favors this machine; commercial buyers are driven by application compatibility and total cost, which is where a 21,000-app catalog still trails Windows and where the pitch has to be proven inside real workflows. Huawei's shipment number suggests the first market is responding. The second one will be decided by whether the professional applications people actually use keep arriving.