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Lionel Lim

DARK SECRETS: Why commerce secretary gina raimondo is calling huawei s new phone incredibly disturbing | Vintage Vibes

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo speaks into a microphone during a U.S. Senate hearing (Credit: Saul Loeb—AFP via Getty Images)

Reports of an advanced chip in Huawei Technologies' newest smartphone are "incredibly disturbing," U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said during a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday.

The Chinese telecoms giant quietly unveiled its new 5G phone, the Mate 60 Pro, in late August—coincidentally during Raimondo's visit to China. A teardown of the phone revealed it used an advanced, China-made 7-nanometer processor.

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