#kirin 980 5g

Huawei's new Mate 20 series is just around the corner and one of its main features is the new engine under the hood, the HiSilicon Kirin 980, which is also the company's latest flagship chipset. HiSilicon's most powerful chipset to-date First, let's do a quick backgrounder on HiSilicon and the Kirin chipset. HiSilicon's Kirin 900 is usually found in Huawei's flagship devices. The Kirin 980 is Huawei's newest flagship SoC. It succeeds the Kirin 970 from last year and will power the Huawei Mate 20 series that will be unveiled this October. The idea is, the more transistors the processor has, the more power it can output and the more power-efficient it becomes. As a basis for comparison, the Kirin 970 was fabricated using TSCM's 10nm FinFET+ process and, according to Huawei, they integrated 5.5 billion transistors in an area roughly the size of a fingernail. The Kirin 980, on the other hand, integrates 6.9 billion transistors within a 1cm2 die size. The Kirin 980 uses an architecture consisting of two super-big, high-performance cores based on Cortex-A76 to handle immediate, intensive workloads; two big, high-efficiency cores based on Cortex-A76 to for sustained performance; and four little, ultra-efficiency based on the Cortex-A55 to tackle everyday, light activities. Read more in our articles including "HiSilicon Kirin 980: Power and Features" and "Huawei Mate 20 Pro with Kirin 980 Benchmark Results".