Huawei Qingyun HM650: China's First 100 Percent Homegrown Desktop Runs HarmonyOS

Huawei has unveiled the Qingyun HM650, the first desktop computer the company says is built entirely from Chinese-made components, and the first desktop ever to run its HarmonyOS operating system. The machine was introduced on 5 November 2026 at the HarmonyOS Office Industry Summit in Wuhan, aimed squarely at government agencies and businesses in China, and it carries a 10-core Kirin X90 processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD. A configuration listed on Huawei's official online store is priced at 7,199 yuan, or about 1,080 US dollars, with sales listed from 1 December.

What Huawei announced in Wuhan

The Qingyun HM650 series was presented by Zhu Dongdong, president of Huawei's tablet and PC product line, at the HarmonyOS Office Industry Summit in Wuhan on 5 November 2026. The series comes in two main versions: the HM650 for enterprise customers and the HM650G for government users, with a higher-performance HM650g configuration also reported. All of them run on Huawei's own Kirin X90 processor, a chip designed by Huawei's HiSilicon arm that first appeared in the company's laptops and tablets last year.

Huawei calls the HM650 the first desktop in China to be certified as 100 percent domestic, and says the claim was verified by Zhejiang Kezheng Electronic Information Product Inspection, a Chinese testing body. The certification covers the origin of the components, from the processor to the memory modules, the SSD storage, the power supply and the Wi-Fi hardware.

HarmonyOS is Huawei's own operating system, built to replace Android and Windows across the company's phones, tablets and computers after US export restrictions cut off its access to American software and chips. The HM650 runs HarmonyOS V1.0, an enterprise version of the system, and this is the first time Huawei has put HarmonyOS on a desktop computer. Huawei says it has now sold more than 1 million HarmonyOS computers as of October 2026, and expects that figure to reach 1.2 million by the end of the year.

Illustration: black desktop tower and monitor with blue abstract display on a bright office desk

What is inside the HM650

The headline component is the Kirin X90, a 10-core processor that supports 20 threads and is paired with Huawei's Maleoon 910 integrated graphics. Notebookcheck reports the chip has a 40 W power draw and is cooled by a dual-sided cooling system, which puts it in the same efficiency class as a modern office desktop rather than a gaming machine. The configuration reported so far pairs the chip with 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD, and the machine includes Huawei's Xiaoyi AI assistant, which can find information, create documents, organise files, transcribe meetings and generate summaries. Some of those AI features need an internet connection and an additional subscription.

Specification	Huawei Qingyun HM650
Processor	Kirin X90, 10 cores, 20 threads, 40 W
Graphics	Maleoon 910 integrated graphics
Memory	16 GB RAM
Storage	512 GB SSD
Operating system	HarmonyOS V1.0, enterprise edition
AI assistant	Xiaoyi, built in
Price	7,199 yuan, about 1,080 US dollars
Sales start	1 December 2026, China only

HarmonyOS on the desktop

The operating system is the bigger story here. HarmonyOS V1.0 on the HM650 is an enterprise edition of Huawei's system, and it is the first time the company has deployed HarmonyOS on a desktop product. The machine also supports file sharing and integration with compatible Huawei devices, so a phone or tablet can hand work to the desktop in the same way Apple's ecosystem links a Mac to an iPhone. That kind of device continuity is now a standard expectation for office computers, and Huawei is pitching it as a reason for Chinese organisations to switch their whole fleet.

The comparison with Apple's latest hardware is instructive, even though the two machines are aimed at very different buyers. Our coverage of the Apple M6 Macs shows a company pushing on-device AI performance for consumers and professionals, while Huawei is pushing independence from foreign suppliers for institutions. Both are betting that the processor and the operating system matter more than ever, but they are solving opposite problems. The same week also brought reports of Samsung intelligent eyewear, a reminder that the biggest hardware makers are all racing to own the next computing platform, whether it sits on a desk or on your face.

Illustration: macro close-up of a processor heatsink with copper heat pipes on a motherboard

The 100 percent domestic claim, explained

The phrase 100 percent domestic needs careful handling. Huawei says every component in the HM650 is made in China, and that the claim was checked by an independent Chinese inspection body. What the company has not published is the full scope of that certification, so it is not clear exactly what the inspectors tested or how they defined a domestic component. A part assembled in China from imported materials, for example, could still count depending on the rules, and Huawei has not released the methodology.

Enterprise security, built for institutions

The HM650 is not a consumer PC, and its feature list makes that obvious. IT administrators can manage devices centrally, set access permissions and control which applications employees can use. The machine supports two isolated workspaces, so users can switch between internal and external networks without mixing them. Its Star Shield 2.0 security architecture includes protection against digital fraud and AI-based detection of face and voice manipulation, and the built-in SSD uses hardware encryption, with controls over application access to files and encrypted document transfers.

Illustration: employees working at desktop computers in a bright open-plan office

Price and availability

Notebookcheck, citing Huawei's official online store, lists the Qingyun HM650 with a Kirin X90 processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD at 7,199 yuan, roughly 1,080 US dollars, with sales starting on 1 December 2026. But the store listing is the only public price so far, and Huawei's own launch announcement did not include one, so the figure should be treated as a store price that could still change before sales begin.

There is no international launch, and none has been announced. The HM650 is sold through enterprise and government channels in China, not through retail outlets, and Huawei has said nothing about bringing it to the United States, the United Kingdom or Europe. Given the export controls that pushed Huawei to build this machine in the first place, a Western launch would be surprising, and buyers outside China should not expect to see one soon.

Why this matters beyond China

The HM650 is a proof point, not a product for global shelves. It shows that a major Chinese company can now ship a complete desktop, from the processor to the operating system to the power supply, without American components. That was the stated goal of China's technology self-reliance policy, and the desktop was one of the last product categories where it had not been achieved. Laptops and phones got there first; the office desktop, with its deep dependence on Intel, AMD and Microsoft, was always going to be the hardest. Anthropic's own move into hardware, covered in our report on Claude Duet Anthropic, shows the same logic from the other side: whoever controls the chip and the operating system controls the computer.

What to watch next

Sales begin 1 December 2026 in China, at a store-listed 7,199 yuan.
Watch for procurement orders from Chinese government and enterprise buyers.

Key Takeaways

Huawei unveiled the Qingyun HM650 on 5 November 2026 in Wuhan, its first desktop running HarmonyOS and the first it describes as built entirely from Chinese-made components.
The machine runs a 10-core, 20-thread Kirin X90 processor with Maleoon 910 graphics, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD, on HarmonyOS V1.0 enterprise edition.
Huawei says the 100 percent domestic claim was verified by Zhejiang Kezheng Electronic Information Product Inspection; the full scope of that certification has not been published.
A configuration is listed on Huawei's official online store at 7,199 yuan, about 1,080 US dollars, with sales from 1 December 2026, but Huawei's launch announcement itself gave no price.
The HM650 and HM650G are aimed at enterprise and government buyers in China only, with no international launch announced and no US or UK availability.

Conclusion

The Qingyun HM650 is a modest desktop with an outsized message. Its specifications are ordinary, its software library is limited and you cannot buy it outside China, but it is the first desktop built entirely from Chinese components running a Chinese operating system, and that is exactly what Huawei set out to achieve. What matters now is whether Chinese institutions buy it in large numbers, and whether the domestic supply chain it proves can keep pace with the global PC industry. If it can, the HM650 will be remembered as the moment the Chinese desktop stopped depending on anyone else.

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