Recently, Qualcomm announced the latest midrange chip, the Xiaolong 710, and was first launched by Xiaomi 8 SE. According to the latest news, Huawei is also preparing to prepare a chip unicorn 710.
The Xiaolong 710 is positioned above the Snapdragon 660. It can be said that it perfectly fills in the blank areas of the current high-end chips. The Snapdragon 710 adopts the current leading 10nm process technology, both in performance and power consumption. Better than Xiaolong 660.
However, according to Taiwan Media Digitimes pointed out that Huawei's new midrange chip Kirin 710 although the positioning is Xiaolong 710's competing products, but the process will still use the TSMC 12nm process process, essentially an upgraded version of the Unicorn 659. However, the Kirin 710 will still Build a special NPU unit to improve its AI performance.
Currently, both Huawei and HiSilicon confirm the existence of the chip, but Taiwan Media disclosed that the Unicorn 710 will be released next month. Huawei Nova 3 is likely to launch the chip.