Recently, there is rumor that Huawei is working on a new chipset Huawei Kirin 970. This chip is said to be built on 10nm process. Let’s read on and discover!

Huawei Kirin 970 chips: support Cat.12 global LTE

It cannot deny that along with smartphone manufacturing, smartphone chip making is also a fast-growing and promising section for many companies. Nowadays, chipsets coming with small size, energy efficiency and good performance are most requiring factors in producing them. As we have mentioned in earlier post, Qualcomm and Samsung are cooperating in making new chips Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. It seems that Huawei has entered the competition with Qualcomm. Recently, Huawei has released Kirin 960 chip. Interestingly, Huawei Kirin 970, possibly the next generation chip of Huawei is said to be on the way of designing and making.

While Snapdragon 835 is the first chip to be manufactured using 10nm technology of Qualcomm, Kirin 970 will be the first generation to be produced applying TSMC 10nm process. This 10nm process will increase the energy efficiency as well as good performance of GPU over the TSMC 16nm technology. In addition, Huawei Kirin 970 is also reported to support Cat.12 global LTE by integrating a baseband into octa-core architecture. The Kirin 960 is built on the 16nm process. There are a quad-core Cortex-A73 chip, other quad-core Cortex-A53 chip and an octa-core Mali-G71 GPU that constitute the Kirin 960. Although the CPU performance is good, the GPU performance cannot be fully extracted.

It seems that producing chipsets built on the 10nm technology is getting more application. Not only Qualcomm and Huawei, but also MediaTek uses TSMC 10nm process to produce Helio X30 chips. Snapdragon 835 will be included in Samsung Galaxy S8. It is said that the Galaxy S8 will be released in the 1st quarter of next year. Likewise Snapdragon 835, Helio X30 chips will be released in the 1st quarter of 2017.

Huawei Kirin 970 availability

In case of Huawei Kirin 97o, there is no information about its availability as well as which smartphone will get the Kirin 970 for the first time. So, let’s wait for more information. We will keep updating for you. Thank you for reading!