This Chinese premium smartphone is reportedly giving tough competition to Apple in its home country

Huawei is reportedly giving competition to Apple’s latest-generation iPhones in China. According to a report from Counterpoint Research, Huawei Technologies has sold 1.6 million of its Mate 60 series handsets in six weeks. The high sales numbers come as the Chinese technology giant defies a smartphone slowdown to enjoy strong demand in its high-end smartphone market.

The Counterpoint report added that of those sales, more than 400,000 units were in the last two weeks, the period in which Apple launched the iPhone 15 in China. The flagship Huawei Mate 60 Pro made up almost three-quarters of the Mate series phones sold, the report said. Huawei launched its premium Mate 60 Pro phone in late August, which many analysts say uses a domestically made chip and marks a breakthrough in the face of years of US technology sanctions against the company.