The biggest unsolved mystery in China's mobile phone industry: Huawei Kirin 9000, how much inventory is there?
Restricted by US sanctions, since September 2020, Huawei's Kirin 9000 chip has been unable to entrust TSMC to produce, becoming a generation of singers. However, by 2022, we can still see mobile phones equipped with Kirin chips listed in small batches, such as the Huawei Mate X2 collector's edition some time ago, and then dingqiao's "Mate 40" model. Netizens also joked, "You never know how many chips Huawei has buried in Songshan Lake."
No, the latest revelations show that Huawei's new mobile phones will be released next month, one of which is a 5G mobile phone equipped with the so-called "Kirin 9000L" chip.
Huawei Mate40E Pro 5G, released next month?
According to the news, Huawei's new 5G mobile phone will arrive in early March, called Huawei Mate 40E Pro, which is really a noH-AN50 mobile phone. This mobile phone has been on the internet at the end of last year, the "ID photo" has been released, and it has recently passed the national 3C certification, and it is expected to meet with us soon.
According to the network access information, Huawei Mate 40E Pro and Mate 40 series are almost the same, 6.76-inch OLED display, 2772 x 1344 resolution, the same 13 million pixel front camera as the Mate 40, 50 million, 20 million, 12 million pixel rear triple camera combination has been reduced. The machine is equipped with a 4300 mAh battery and weighs 212g, which is similar to the Mate 40 Pro.
The name of the Huawei Mate 40E Pro is reminiscent of huawei's Huawei Mate 40E launched last March, which looks no different from the Mate 40, except that the chip is replaced by the previous generation of Kirin 990E. At that time, the phone did not seem to be very optimistic, and it was considered to be suspected of new bottles of old wine.
Huawei Mate 40E
However, a year later, the tone of Huawei's new machine seems to have changed, from "new bottles of old wine" to "buy and cherish". While lamenting Huawei's inventory management skills, there is another question worth thinking about, why in 2022, Kirin 9000 is still so memorable?
Kirin 9000 Why is it still nostalgic
First of all, let's see, what is the level of this rumored Kirin 9000L?
According to rumors, the Kirin 9000L can be considered a downscaled version of the Kirin 9000, with the A77 large core dropping to 2.86GHz (both kirin 9000 and 9000E are 3.13GHz), the GPU is reduced to 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 micronucleus).
That is to say, the Kirin 9000E of the Mate 40 Standard Edition is the "residual blood version" of the Kirin 9000, and the next Kirin 9000L is the "residual blood version of the residual blood".
Why did the chip that has been released for more than a year, its bloody and bloody version, still miss so many people?
A very important reason is the slowdown in the overall progress of the market under the lack of competition. For example, the Qualcomm Snapdragon chip widely used in mainstream smartphones, the recent two generations of flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, the new generation of Snapdragon 8, the increase is not significant. Referring to the Geekbench 5 running score, the latest generation of Snapdragon 8 has a small increase in multi-core running score compared to the Snapdragon 888. Released more than a year ago kirin 9000, multi-core score can almost play with the Snapdragon 8.
The most likely person to carry the pot for this is probably Samsung, who is responsible for the OEM of Qualcomm. The less than ideal heat control has caused these two generations of Snapdragon chips to suffer from overheating and frequency reduction. The Kirin chip on the other side uses the TSMC process, which is relatively less stressful. According to the report of JPMorgan Chase, TSMC's advanced process will continue to receive large orders, and NVIDIA, Qualcomm, etc. that have previously found Samsung OEM will all switch to TSMC, and who is the "back pot man" is clear at a glance.
In addition, there is another name that we are familiar with, which seems to have joined the ranks of "squeezing toothpaste", that is, Arm. Qualcomm's new generation of Snapdragon 8, MediaTek Tianji 9000 and other new generation chips use the latest Arm V9 architecture, Arm said armv9 X2 super core IPC is 16% better than Armv8's X1. This is one of the reasons why the Kirin 9000, which is based on arm V8.2-A architecture and A77 core, has not fallen behind too much so far.
If you look closely at the PPT, you can find that the old word game master Arm has played a little careful, and Arm's claimed 16% range is compared with the X2 core and the X1 core with twice the L3 cache - what is accurate "variable control"! In a sense, even Arm is taking the old road of improving cache and enhancing memory access performance, without bringing heavy innovation, and the lack of surprises in the overall smartphone performance improvement can be imagined.
Is Huawei's new machine in 2022 still worth buying?
According to the news, we can see Huawei's new mobile phone as soon as March. So the question is, is this year's Huawei new phone still worth buying as before?
Overall, if you're an avid Fan of Huawei, you can still wait and see, especially if 5G is supported – this may be one of huawei's few new 5G phones. It should be noted that even if it has the name of Mate 40 and the core of Kirin, it is not as good as the Mate 40 series in 2020. In the future, whether Huawei can return to the 5G track from 4G mobile phones remains to be answered.
In any case, Huawei in 2022 can also even out a mid-cup of a 2020 flagship, which is a microcosm of China's smartphone market. I hope that this year, major manufacturers can come up with more eye-catching new products and break the silence in this seriously homogenized market.
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