#kirin 980 mate 20

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. 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 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. The Kirin 980 features an on On-Device AI courtesy of the dual-core NPU (neural processing unit). In addition, the Kirin 980 supports common AI frameworks such as Caffee, Tensorflow and Tensorflow Lite, and provides a suite of tools that simplify the difficulty of engineering On-Device AI, allowing developers to take advantage of the processing power of the Dual NPU. Huawei integrated its proprietary fourth-generation ISP into the Kirin 980 to improve a smartphone's photography experience. Read more in our articles including "HiSilicon Kirin 980: Power and Features" and "Huawei Ascend Mate 2 LTE in the flesh, first impressions".