August 31, Huawei will launch a new generation of kylin chips-Kirin 980, the world's first commercially available 7nm chip-in IFA2018, Berlin, Germany.
Controversial known, Qualcomm Snapdragon Dragon 855, Apple A12 will also adopt 7nm process technology, but from the release time, Kirin 980 is well-deserved the first commercial 7nm chip.
Kirin 980 released Tonight Throughout the development of the Kylin chip, from the world's first 28nm four-core SOC Chip Kylin 910, to the Kirin 950 first 16nm, A72, Mali T880 first plus hold, since the research SIP technology greatly enhance the photo experience, and then to Kirin 960 first commercial A72, mali-g71, UFS2.1,
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History of Kylin Chip evolution In recent years, Huawei Self-developed Kylin chip progress is obvious. As we all know, independent chip research and development of technology and funding requirements are particularly high, and back to the process is very long, and there is a huge cost of investment and research and development failure risk.
So, this also decided to be able to independently research and development of chip mobile phone manufacturers are few, but Huawei is willing to build independent chips, the initiative in their hands, from this aspect or can see Huawei's boldness and the future of the chip industry layout. Judging from the current explosion, Kirin 980 in performance ahead of Qualcomm's flagship Chip Dragon 845.
August 28, Huawei CEO Yu Chengdong forwarded Huawei Terminal Micro-blog for the IFA warm-up and the text: ' Ta will be as smart as your brain ', it seems Yu Chengdong to the Kylin 980 AI performance full of confidence.
Yu Chengdong Weibo screenshot
In fact, from the actual performance point of view, each generation of Kylin chip in performance and innovation technology, there is a qualitative leap. Last year, the Kirin 970 chip went further in its innovation, becoming the world's first SOC to have an independent built-in NPU Neural Network Computing unit, leaving the Qualcomm Snapdragon Dragon, Apple, and other competitors behind in a smartphone-to-smart phone transition.
Although the latter also has a product to support AI, but the use of traditional CPUs, GPUs, DSP hardware units and SDK software development kits, integrated into the AIE engine, the computational efficiency and NPU compared to the difference between, and will aggravate the CPU, GPU, DSP burden.
Kirin 970 This year, the Kylin 980 chip release once again in the process of making a leading. 7NM process technology represents the highest level of the current processor, to know that the smaller the figure, means that the better the chip performance, lower power consumption, the chip area will be reduced. Theoretically, the 7 nano-chip compared to the 10-nanometer chip power consumption is expected to reduce 40%, the chip area is reduced by 37%.
Compared to the 16NM chip, the area can be reduced to the original 1/3, power consumption is expected to reduce 60%, performance improvement of at least 30%. In addition to the 7nm process, the Kylin 980 in the CPU, GPU and NPU have also been upgraded, it will use 4 A77 large core + 4 A55 small core architecture, the highest frequency of 2.8GHz, but there are rumors that Kirin 980 CPU will use A76 architecture and magic Change,
With regard to these two guesses, Huawei has not given a definitive reply, and it is only to be seen at the conference.
Kylin Chip
On the GPU side, Huawei handsets may use mali-g76 MP12, which means that the GPU will use a 12-core G76 architecture for extreme performance gaming performance. Thus, in the case of 7nm Qualcomm 855 production lag, with the 7nm process of the Kylin 980 can definitely be called the second half of this year the strongest chip in the field of mobile phone chips.
It is worth mentioning that the previous Yu Chengdong revealed that the new generation of Huawei Mate series flagship will be the first model of Kirin 980.
