Huawei's Mate 90 Series Debuts New Tau Chip and $1,700 Flagship Price Tag
Shenzhen – – October 01, 2026 -- Huawei has launched its HUAWEI Mate 90 Series, with prices starting at CNY5,999 (roughly $840) for the base model and climbing to CNY12,999 (about $1,820) for the RS ULTIMATE DESIGN variant.
The flagship Tau chip powers the entire lineup for the first time.
The Mate 90 Pro Max runs on the new LogicFolding Tau Chip, which Huawei says enables 5 million signal transmission bonds and 125 TB/s of inter-die bandwidth. The Pro Max Premium Edition and RS ULTIMATE DESIGN use the Kirin 9050 Pro, delivering a 31% performance jump over prior chips, while the Pro model's Kirin 9035 adds a 20% boost and the standard edition's Kirin 9030 gains 27%.
Richard Yu, Chairman of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, said the series marks "a comprehensive evolution in design, performance, imaging, reliability, and smart user experience" through tight integration of hardware, software, chips, and cloud.