Former Huawei unit plans to churn out 100m smartphones in 2021

Honor needs US government help to procure from Qualcomm and other suppliers

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Honor does not know if the parts it will need to make 100 million smartphones next year will be subject to U.S. export controls. © Reuters

NAOKI WATANABE and HIDEAKI RYUGEN, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Honor, Huawei Technologies' low-end smartphone unit, plans to increase production by 40%, to about 100 million units, in 2021 and has sounded out U.S. parts makers about supplies, Nikkei has learned.

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