Huawei has launched the Qingyun HM650, a desktop PC that runs HarmonyOS instead of Windows and uses Huawei’s own Kirin X90 chip. Huawei calls it the first HarmonyOS desktop, and it is aimed at government offices and companies in China rather than home buyers.
The company showed it at a HarmonyOS office summit in Wuhan on 5 November. Huawei’s own page for the PC, which is in Chinese, describes a business computer built around three ideas: smooth performance, AI help at work and security that Huawei says reaches from the chip to the cloud. Reports from the launch say sales begin in China on 1 December.
The tower is small. The specification page gives 293 mm in height, 93 mm in width and 315.5 mm in depth, and about 3.6 kg for the version without an optical drive or hard disk. Inside is LPDDR5 memory, one SSD and, on some models, a hard drive. The power supply is rated at 180W. A wired Huawei keyboard and mouse come in the box. Huawei says the chip is cooled from both sides, which it credits for keeping low-pitched noise down.
Huawei’s product page puts its Ark engine behind quick app launches, fast file opening and quick unpacking of archives, with a 2.5 GB archive and a 1 GB presentation as its examples. A memory feature called HyperSpace compresses memory more efficiently, by 50% in Huawei’s lab tests, and lets the PC keep 40% more large files open than the company’s HM740 model with 24 GB. Those are Huawei’s own figures. Reports from the launch put the standard setup at 16GB of memory and a 512GB SSD, with up to 24GB available.
The most repeated claim is that 100% of the parts are made in China. Huawei names the chip, memory, storage, power supply and Wi-Fi as covered, and says an inspection firm, Zhejiang Kezheng Electronic Information Product Inspection, tested it. Press reports note that the scope of the certification is unclear. Made in China is a manufacturing claim, so it does not show that Huawei designed each part.
The AI side is built around Huawei’s Xiaoyi assistant. Huawei says its work agent can call more than 2,300 skills and four task tools, so one instruction can start jobs such as gathering information, sorting files, writing a report or a weekly summary, and a phone can send tasks to the desktop remotely. A meeting-notes feature runs on a local AI model to turn speech into minutes, and a research tool uses several agents and lets the user steer the work as it goes. Some features need an internet connection and a paid add-on.
Security gets the most space on the page. AI agents run in a system-level sandbox, and Huawei says its cloud-side AI processing meets the same standard as on-device work, backed by a device-and-cloud certificate from a state research institute. HarmonyOS V1.0 carries a national secure-and-reliable rating, Level II, and the computer an information-security rating the page calls excellent. The SSD is encrypted in the chip, so a removed drive cannot be read. Huawei notes this covers only the SSD fitted at the factory, not a hard disk or a drive added later.
The PC also links to Huawei phones. A phone running HarmonyOS 5 or later can be mirrored on the desktop in three windows, and photos and the clipboard move between the two. Pages open on the phone carry over to the computer, and a file-sharing feature can send documents, photos and video to up to four devices at once without compressing them. Both devices must use the same Huawei account.
For wireless, Huawei says it uses its own Wi-Fi chip with a MetaLine 2.0 metamaterial antenna for a steadier connection. The page adds that only some configurations include Wi-Fi.
The back and front carry the usual office ports: one USB-C and three USB-A (USB 3.2 Gen 1) on the front with a headphone and microphone jack, and four more USB-A, an Ethernet port, HDMI, DisplayPort and audio jacks on the back. There is also an internal PCIe x1 slot.
For business buyers there is device management from the cloud, where staff get permissions and apps according to their role, and a two-space setup that keeps the internal network and outside work apart. Huawei includes a three-year service hotline, open around the clock, and says it has more than 3,200 service centres in over 300 Chinese cities. Extended warranty and home visits cost extra.
Prices are not settled in the reports. Several put the starting price at 7,199 yuan, about $1,080, for the Kirin X90, 16GB and 512GB version, and others give a range from 6,899 to 10,499 yuan, but the official page lists none. Huawei has not announced any sale outside China. The desktop follows Huawei’s loss of its US licences to buy Intel and Qualcomm chips in 2024; its laptops made the move to its own chips first.
