Huawei Kirin 980 chipset: 7nm process technology, AI technology support!

Chinese manufacturer Huawei has recently released a poster revealing their latest Huawei Kirin 980 processor with AI support and impressive performance. Want more details about this high-end processor? Read on right below!

Huawei Kirin 980

Huawei Kirin 980 specs: 2.8 GHz, 7nm process technology

Today, a poster from Huawei unveils that the company is holding a Keynote speech at the IFA. Notably, the background of the mesh spot on the poster implies that this speech is related to the latest processor from Huawei named Kirin 980. This processor is reportedly built on the 7nm process by TSMC. Besides, it comes with four Cortex-A77 cores and four more Cortex-A55 for power-efficiency. Furthermore, the GPU is to come with Huawei’s self-developed graphics chipset, alongside 2.8 GHz.

Additionally, this Kirin 980 bears the latest AI chip technology by Cambricon. Thanks to that, it can make the NPU even smoother and bring up to 5Tops/W (5 trillion operations per watt). Furthermore, it can provide processor cores of 3 Tops, 4 Tops an even 8 Tops to live up to different levels of AI. What’s more, the Kirin 980 offers a responsive and efficient computing platform. Therefore, the visual, speech, natural language processing is better.

Huawei Kirin 980

Noticeably, the processor can run 1.5 times faster than the Adreno 630, which is paired with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. According to our internal source, the first smartphones to come with the Kirin 980 are Huawei Mate 20 and Huawei Mate 20 Pro flagships. On the other hand, the Kirin 980 holds a massive improvement over the Kirin 970, at least in the GPU department. Previously, the Huawei Mate 20 visited AnTuTu with the 980 and scored 350,000+ points. Quite an impressive number, don’t you think?

Huawei Kirin 980 release date

As mentioned above, the Huawei Kirin 980 is going to make an appearance on August 31, 2018, at the IFA event. Do you think Huawei new processor and beat the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset in the race of power? Drop a comment to let us know!