In 2022, all new machines will be opened, and only Huawei has pressed the pause button.
Although some messages were released, such as the internal testing experience of Hongmeng OS and the Ark compiler version 1.0, the flagship products that the public users are most concerned about, the P series and the Mate series, were almost no news.
As for the reason, everyone understands that the most critical Kirin chip on Huawei's mobile phone is now using one less.
I thought it was the beginning of raising my eyebrows, but I didn't expect it to become a "no song".
However, Huawei did not choose to give up on this, and no one can give an accurate number about how much inventory of Kirin chips there is.
Just when everyone is still worried about the inventory of Kirin core, recently, about another chip of Kirin code name - Kirin 9000L, which was exposed by many bloggers.
According to @Courage Digital Jun revealed: Friends said they saw the Kirin 9000L, and the mobile phone equipped with it is Mate40 E Pro, 5G.
And @ Changan Digital Jun revealed more information about the stocking channel: last year, I asked everyone about the Kirin 9000L chip: chip stocking, especially the Kirin chip, Huawei has always been cautious, afraid of a single chip or its foundry overturned, so it is double stocking.
So at the same time, the foundry was also stocked with which model of chip, as long as the Kirin 9000 is not a problem, the chip is generally not known to the specific situation. In the end, whether the Kirin 9000L (tentative name) is the replacement chip of the year depends on Huawei's final decision.
As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves, and we have reason to believe that there is some basis for this news.
A step closer, there is also news that Huawei will launch two new models next month, namely the Mate 40E Pro and P50E. The styles of these two phones, the former supports 5G, the latter does not support 5G.
Among them, the Huawei Mate 40 E Pro is an enhanced version of the Mate 40 E released last year.
Mate 40E is equipped with a Kirin 990E chip, 990E although the performance is not as good as the Kirin 9000, but the overall strength is still very good, and the processor equipped with the Mate 40E also increased the overall sales of the Mate 40 series.
So, the release of the Mate 40 E Pro and P50 E.
On the one hand, it can further recover the market share of Huawei mobile phones.
On the one hand, you can have more choices for users who like Huawei.
On the one hand, it also tells everyone that Huawei will never give up the mobile phone market, and has made a lot of efforts to this end.
Where did the chip come from?
As we said earlier, the production of Kirin chips used a double backup strategy, that is to say, in addition to TSMC to Huawei OEM, there is also a chip manufacturer that also did OEM production for Huawei Kirin chips. At present, it seems that this company is likely to be Samsung.
However, it should be noted that this is not a new production line, but a part of the inventory in the original dual backup strategy, but there is no particularly clear news revealed before.
In other words, without really solving the problem of lithography machine and realizing the freedom of shipment, Huawei Kirin core still uses one less.
Back to the Samsung FOUNDRY side, according to the news revealed on the Internet, the Kirin 9000L mobile platform design is similar to the Kirin 9000E and Kirin 9000, but it seems to be foundry by the Samsung 5nm EUV process (the credibility is average), compared to the two predecessor models of TSMC OEM.
The Kirin 9000L CPU large core A77 clock clock drops to 2.86GHz (3.13GHz for both 9000 and 9000E), the GPU is 18-core Mali-G78 (9000 is 24 cores, 9000E is 22 cores), and the NPU retains only one large core (9000 is 2 large cores + 1 microcore, 9000E is 1 large core + 1 microcore).
So the performance is on the 9000L performance is definitely not as good as before.
And the reputation of the Samsung process is not very good, and the heat consumption has to be worried. What's more interesting is that even Samsung's own mobile phone department is also disgusted with the Exynos chip under the Samsung process.
But then again, having a core is better than no core, and for Huawei, this is the best choice at present.
Speaking of which, in fact, the biggest reason for Huawei's current situation is the chip.
And Huawei is not only a mobile phone manufacturer, it has also achieved extraordinary results in the field of communications and semiconductors.
Therefore, Lao Mei is worried about ah, the right does not dare to come, it will make bad, play hooligans like to crack down on sanctions.
Fortunately, despite experiencing many difficulties, Huawei did not give up and released a poster of "walking towards the core" across the Chinese New Year's Eve.
This is undoubtedly a firm statement that what Huawei has to do is to work hard to break through the restrictions and strive to restore the normal supply of Kirin chips as soon as possible.
Therefore, here, Guozi still has to sincerely bless and hope that Huawei can achieve a great breakthrough as soon as possible!