HUAWEI

Company begins trial production of 5nm Kirin 1000 SoC

Huawei's latest processors are the Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G. At the moment, they can only be found inside the Mate 30 and the Mate 30 Pro and their 5G versions. The processors will power Huawei and Honor flagship phones for the next year or thereabout before a new flagship SoC will be released. According to new reports, SoC is already under development and it will be called the Kirin 1000!
According to Huawei Central, the Kirin 1000 will be built on the 5nm process based on info from industry sources. The sources also informed that the processor will be announced in H2 2019 and first appear in the Huawei Mate 40 series.
The Kirin 1000 will feature the Cortex-A77 colors Arm announced earlier this year and which was expected to be present in the Kirin 990 instead of the Cortex-A76 colors it uses. The A77 brings a 20% improvement in performance and with the switch to a smaller node size, which improvement in performance should be higher.
There are still a lot of unknown details about the processor but that isn´t surprising since there is still about 10 months of waiting before it is announced.

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