As we all know, Huawei's investment in mobile phone chips is very large. Huawei's flagship mobile phone has always been a self-developed chip. Starting from Kirin 955, Huawei chips are gradually approaching the mainstream level; to the Kirin 970 generation, finally reaching the mainstream level of the industry, with Qualcomm The performance of the flagship chip is flat.
Obviously Huawei's ambition will not be satisfied because of this achievement. The rule of the market is the ultimate goal. At present, Kirin's new generation chip 980 is about to be released. It is the killer of Huawei's second half of the year. With the good foundation of the Kirin 970 chip, As well as the eye-catching performance of GPU Turbo technology, everyone gave great hope to Kirin 980.
This morning, a poster suspected to be from Huawei's overseas market showed that Huawei will release the Kirin 980 chip at the IFA held on August 31 this year. However, on the poster, Huawei has not disclosed the specific information of Kirin 980. Huawei mobile phone He Gang, the president of the terminal, confirmed the authenticity of the news.
Regarding this chip, everyone is very much looking forward to it, because it represents the highest level of domestic mobile phone chips, which is related to the trend of the mobile phone industry in the future. We have also reported that the CPU part of Kirin 980 chip has 8 cores and 4 A77 big cores. 4 A55 small cores, the highest frequency is 2.8GHz, and the process technology is TSMC 7nm process.
The GPU part is the top priority of the chip. The user has been criticized for the weak GPU of the Kirin chip, and the game performance is poor. However, after the release of the GPU Turbo technology, the situation is alleviated, the game performance is greatly improved, and the card is also much less. However, it should be noted that there is still a certain gap between Qualcomm chips. The Kirin 980 may be able to shorten the gap, even overtaking, because it used Huawei's self-developed graphics processor for the first time.
This means that Huawei is the second company in China to fully master the CPU and GPU design technology after Zhaoxin. Although this is Huawei's first self-developed GPU, it has a breakthrough in GPU Turbo. The GPU part of Kirin 980 will not Then drag your legs like you used to.
In addition to the CPU and GPU, the NPU is inseparable from the Kirin chip. Like the 5G, AI is also a popular technology. On the Kirin 970, Huawei used the NPU, and it is not bad from user feedback. Kirin 980 will continue to carry NPU. It has been reported that the new generation of NPU will come from the Cambrian third-generation (latest) product 'Cambrian 1M'.
For Cambrian chips, you may be unfamiliar. This is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence chips and is a leader in the industry. According to the official introduction, the Cambrian 1M energy consumption ratio is as high as 5Tops/W, which is 5 trillion yuan per watt. Second operation, and can provide 2Tops, 4Tops, 8Tops three-scale processor core. With the support of Cambrian chips, the wireless processing power of Kirin 980 will also become an important selling point.
In addition, in addition to the Kirin 980 chip in the second half of this year, Huawei also has a heavy product release, which is Huawei's annual flagship Mate20. If there is no accident, Huawei Mate20 mobile phone will launch the Kirin 980 chip. This year, Huawei mobile phone technology research and development. Or mobile phone sales, have achieved a big leap forward. And what kind of performance will Kirin 980 chip bring, can it become a booster for Huawei? With these questions, let us look forward to the Huawei conference on August 31.
