Talking about Huawei chips, the old fox can't help but sigh, because of sanctions, Huawei 5G chips are almost extinct, and the last generation is the Kirin 9000 series.
However, there is news that Huawei will make a breakthrough in chips this year, and they may launch a new one.
Judging from the news, this Kirin chip codenamed "Kirin KC10" is equipped on a suspected engineering machine Huawei Mate 50 Pro.
The KC10 chip, also known as Kirin 9010, belongs to the iterative version of Kirin 9000, and in performance mode, Antutu can reach 1.3 million points.
If it is not sanctioned, according to the chip iteration rhythm, this Kirin 9010 may appear on Huawei's flagship mobile phone in 2021.
It is also reported that Huawei Mate 60 is expected to be equipped with the new Kirin 5G chipset, which combines 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage memory, which can be expanded up to 1Tb.
There is also news that SMIC has achieved mass production of the 12nm process, so there are also rumors that Kirin mid-range chips will return to mass production.
Although there are many rumors, from a realistic point of view, Huawei's 5G chip wants to officially return, which is still not optimistic.
Looking back at Huawei's self-developed chip road, we can see that Huawei's Kirin chip development to the present is a step by step.
In 2009, HiSilicon introduced the first GSM application processor chip, the K3V1, a baseband processor technology developed in-house using a 110nm process.
But at that time, the competitor's process had reached 45nm, and the chip performance gap was very obvious, so it did not set off any waves.
In 2012, HiSilicon launched the Kirin K3V2, which was first used in Huawei's own mobile phones, so it was a milestone.
In early 2013, Huawei launched the Kirin 910, which is Huawei's first chip under the name "Kirin ", using a 28nm process.
The Kirin 920 chip, released in June 2014, is Huawei's truly mature self-developed chip, using the industry-leading BIG. LITTLE structure.
In March 2015, Huawei launched the Kirin 930/935 chip, which is just a regular upgrade and does not have many highlights in performance.
In November 2015, Huawei launched the Kirin 950, the first flagship chip using the 16nm process, representing that the Kirin chip officially entered the first camp of mobile phone chips.
In 2016, Huawei released the Kirin 960, which solved the problem that the previous integrated baseband did not support CDMA, becoming the first mobile phone SoC chip to integrate the baseband of the whole Netcom.
In September 2017, Huawei released the Kirin 970, which integrated the artificial intelligence computing platform NPU in the SoC for the first time, creating a precedent in the device-side AI industry.
In September 2018, Huawei launched the Kirin 980, which for the first time uses a 7nm process and features the GPU-enhanced function "GPU Turbo", which is what Yu Chengdong called "scary technology".
In September 2019, Huawei launched the Kirin 990, the first flagship 5G SoC chip using a 7nm process.
In 2020, the Kirin 9000 was released, the chip uses a 5nm process and integrates 15.3 billion transistors, nearly 30% more than Apple's A14, which is the pinnacle.
Then, there was no then, and the sanctioned Kirin chip also had to stop moving forward.
Although the production of Huawei chips has been forced to stall, it does not mean that the project has stopped.
The old fox believes that even if it has been sanctioned for many years, it will not stop Huawei's research and development steps, and looks forward to the Kirin chip returning with full blood one day.
Resources:
Electronic enthusiast network: from K3V1 to Kirin 9000, the evolution history of Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin chip
SevenTech: Huawei 5G chip new name Kirin 9 Gen 1? Will Kirin come back?
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