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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (enbrief · Oct 31, 2026)

Huawei Mate 90 Xiaoyi upgrade: 100+ apps join AI memo and trigger AI

KEY FACTS

  • Huawei released its HarmonyOS ecosystem weekly report on October 30, announcing an upgrade to Xiaoyi capabilities on the Mate 90 series.
  • The upgrade focuses on two features, Xiaoyi Memo and Xiaoyi Trigger AI, built on the HarmonyOS intelligent perception engine.
  • More than one hundred apps have already integrated these two AI capabilities.
  • Xiaoyi Memo can capture content on the fly and intelligently extract and summarize it, delivering system-level proactive service.
  • The Mate 90 series launched on October 1 and all models are powered by Kirin chips.

KEY DATA

100+Apps integrated
13%Kirin 9030 CPU performance gain
54%Kirin 9030 GPU performance gain
140%Kirin 9050 Pro NPU performance gain

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Xiaoyi is shifting from a voice assistant to system-level proactive service, and the integration of more than one hundred apps shows Huawei is building AI capabilities into HarmonyOS as an underlying entry point rather than a single-point feature. For users it means convenience; for developers it means a new adaptation threshold. The ecosystem positioning battle has already extended from chips to the AI service layer.

Source: enbrief original report ↗