Huawei has put its own operating system on a desktop computer for the first time. The Qingyun HM650, unveiled on November 5, 2026 at the HarmonyOS Office Industry Summit in Wuhan, runs HarmonyOS V1.0 on Huawei’s own 10-core Kirin X90 chip. There is no Intel processor, no Qualcomm chip, and no Windows anywhere in the machine. It is aimed squarely at government offices and businesses in China, with sales due to start on December 1 — and it is the clearest sign yet of how far Huawei’s break from American technology has come.
A fully homegrown stack, from silicon to screen
The headline component is the Kirin X90, a 10-core, 20-thread processor with Huawei’s Maleoon 910 graphics, rated at 40 watts. The chip first appeared in Huawei’s laptops and tablets in 2025, so the desktop is an extension of silicon Huawei already ships rather than a brand-new processor. It runs HarmonyOS V1.0, an enterprise edition of the operating system Huawei has spent years building as its answer to Windows and Android.
Huawei’s most repeated claim is that 100% of the machine’s parts are made in China — the chip, memory, storage, power supply and Wi-Fi included. The company says the claim was tested by Zhejiang Kezheng Electronic Information Product Inspection, though press reports note that the scope of that certification is unclear. The range comes in two versions: the HM650 for enterprise buyers and the HM650G for government users. Huawei also said at the summit that cumulative shipments of HarmonyOS computers have now passed one million units.
The context matters. Huawei lost its US licences to buy Intel and Qualcomm chips in 2024, and its first HarmonyOS laptops, the MateBook Fold and MateBook Pro, arrived in May 2025. The HM650 completes the set: phones, tablets, laptops, and now a desktop, all running Huawei’s own software on Huawei’s own silicon.
Built for office work, with an AI assistant on board
The AI side is built around Huawei’s Xiaoyi assistant. Huawei says its work agent can call on more than 2,300 skills and four task tools, so a single instruction can start jobs such as gathering information, sorting files, writing a report or a weekly summary, and a phone can send tasks to the desktop remotely. A meeting-notes feature runs on a local AI model to turn speech into minutes, and a research tool uses several agents and lets the user steer the work as it goes. Some features need an internet connection and a paid add-on.
Under the hood, Huawei’s Ark engine is credited with quick app launches, fast file opening and quick unpacking of archives — the company cites a 2.5 GB archive and a 1 GB presentation as its examples. A memory feature called HyperSpace compresses memory more efficiently, by 50% in Huawei’s lab tests, and lets the PC keep 40% more large files open than the company’s HM740 model with 24 GB. Those are Huawei’s own figures, and independent testing will show how the machine holds up under real office workloads. The standard setup is 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory and a 512 GB SSD, with up to 24 GB available.
Security is the headline feature
Security gets the most space on Huawei’s product page, and it is easy to see why: this is a machine built for buyers who care about control. AI agents run in a system-level sandbox, and Huawei says its cloud-side AI processing meets the same standard as on-device work, backed by a device-and-cloud certificate from a state research institute. HarmonyOS V1.0 carries a national secure-and-reliable rating, Level II, and the computer carries an information-security rating the page calls excellent.
The SSD is encrypted in the chip, so a drive removed from the machine cannot be read elsewhere. Huawei notes this covers only the SSD fitted at the factory, not a hard disk or a drive added later. For business buyers there is device management from the cloud, where staff get permissions and apps according to their role, and a two-space setup that keeps the internal network and outside work apart. Huawei includes a three-year service hotline, open around the clock, and says it has more than 3,200 service centres in over 300 Chinese cities. Extended warranty and home visits cost extra.
That security pitch connects to a wider trend: governments are spending heavily on sovereign technology, as shown by Japan’s ¥10 billion cybersecurity package, and the encryption landscape itself is shifting, with DeepMind’s AI agents found weaknesses in 1024-bit RSA encryption — a reminder that the hardware and software guarding sensitive data are under constant pressure.
A compact tower with room to grow
The tower is small: 293 mm high, 93 mm wide and 315.5 mm deep, weighing about 3.6 kg in the version without an optical drive or hard disk. Inside is LPDDR5 memory, one SSD and, on some models, a hard drive. The power supply is rated at 180W, and Huawei says the chip is cooled from both sides, which it credits with keeping low-pitched noise down. A wired Huawei keyboard and mouse come in the box.
The front carries one USB-C port and three USB-A ports (USB 3.2 Gen 1) with a headphone and microphone jack; the back adds four more USB-A ports, an Ethernet port, HDMI, DisplayPort and audio jacks, plus an internal PCIe x1 slot for expansion. For wireless, Huawei says it uses its own Wi-Fi chip with a MetaLine 2.0 metamaterial antenna for a steadier connection — though the page adds that only some configurations include Wi-Fi, so buyers should check the exact model.
It plays well with Huawei phones
The PC also links to Huawei phones. A phone running HarmonyOS 5 or later can be mirrored on the desktop in three windows, and photos and the clipboard move between the two. Pages open on the phone carry over to the computer, and a file-sharing feature can send documents, photos and video to up to four devices at once without compressing them. Both devices must use the same Huawei account.
It is the same ecosystem logic rivals are chasing: Xiaomi is pushing its own software across phones, tablets and laptops with the Xiaomi HyperOS 4 global rollout, and this week also saw the launch of the Motorola Signature 27 flagship phone — hardware makers everywhere are betting that the device you already carry should decide the computer you buy next.
Price, availability, and who it’s for
Prices are not settled in the reports. Several put the starting price at 7,199 yuan, about $1,080, for the 10-core Kirin X90 version with 16 GB of memory and a 512 GB SSD, while an 8-core HM650G configuration is reported at 6,899 yuan and other reports give a range up to 10,499 yuan. Huawei’s official page lists no price, and the machines are sold only through commercial channels rather than retail outlets, with sales reported to begin in China on December 1. Huawei has not announced any sale outside China.
For a fuller picture of the launch, see Tech Prolonged’s detailed report on the HM650, NotebookCheck’s coverage of the launch, and Crypto Briefing’s report on the debut.
Why the HM650 matters — and what to watch
The Qingyun HM650 matters less as a product most readers will buy — it is not sold outside China, and it is not aimed at home users at all — and more as a statement. It is the first desktop to complete Huawei’s stack from silicon to interface, and a test of whether HarmonyOS can work as a serious office platform rather than a phone and tablet system stretched onto bigger screens.
Two questions will decide whether it succeeds. The first is software compatibility: an office desktop lives or dies by the applications it can run, and Huawei has said less about that than about its hardware. The second is performance: the 15% gain Huawei claims from hardware-software integration is the company’s own figure, and independent testing has yet to confirm it. What is not in doubt is the direction of travel — a major vendor can now ship a complete desktop with no American chip and no American operating system, and that changes the conversation for every buyer weighing where their next fleet of office PCs comes from.
