Huawei announced the launch of its in-house Kirin 990 5G and Kirin 990 mobile SoC at the ongoing IFA 2019 in Berlin. The successor to the Kirin 980 is manufactured using the 7nm FinFET Plus EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) process by TSMC and expected to power the upcoming Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro and Huawei Mate X.
Hailed as the world’s first 5G-integrated mobile SoC and world’s first to have more than 10.3 billion transistors, Kirin 990 (5G and non-5G model) brings upgraded GPU and NPU (Neural processing unit) over the Kirin 980. It packs 8 cores – 2x Cortex-A76 @2.86GHz, 2x Cortex-A76 @2.09 – 2.36GHz and 4x Cortex-A55 @1.86 – 1.95GHz.
The chipset is expected to offer up to 10% single-core and up to 9% multi-core performance over the Snapdragon 855 mobile platform. In terms of size, it is 36% smaller than Samsung’s Exynos 9820 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 mobile platform. The 5G variant is 4G/5G multi-mode complaint and the NPU unit uses Huawei’s Da Vinci architecture.
Huawei also unveiled the Kirin A1 wearables processor that will power the new FreeBuds 3 true wireless stereo earbuds. The company also unveiled the Huawei Wi-Fi Q2 Pro router and two new hue options – Misty Lavender and Mystic Blue – for the Huawei P30 Pro.
When Matte meets Gloss, beautiful things happen.
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— Huawei Mobile (@HuaweiMobile) September 6, 2019
