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When everyone's attention was focused on Huawei's two latest flagship machines - Huawei P60 series and folding screen Huawei Mate X3, Dark Horse noticed another new machine at this conference - Huawei Enjoy 60 series.
Huawei Enjoy 60 series adopts a 6.75-inch pearl screen, a 6000mAh ultra-large battery, and supports 22.5W fast charging and HarmonyOS 3.0 systems. For photography, it will be equipped with a 48-megapixel main lens and a 2-megapixel independent depth-of-field lens.
At the same price, these basic configurations are still relatively decent and normal matches.
However, it is worth mentioning that Huawei Enjoy the 60 series and officially confirmed that it will be equipped with Octa core processor, according to the news, this is Huawei's Kirin 710A processor chip.
According to another blogger report, the Kirin chip that returned this time, the Kirin 710A, is neither the inventory of Songshan Lake nor the second-hand goods recovered from other mobile phones, but the 14nm domestic chip manufactured by SMIC.
What's going on, it burned all of a sudden.
Of course, as we all know, Huawei's Enjoy Digital Series has always taken the low-end route, such as the starting price of the previous generation Huawei Enjoy P50 is only 1299 yuan, which belongs to the real "thousand yuan machine" product series.
Therefore, the chip is also a low-end chip.
And compared with the previous Huawei Kirin 710 chip, Huawei Kirin 710A chip is actually a "downclocked version" of the former.
Huawei Kirin 710 chip: using a 12nm chip, the main frequency of the large core is 2.2GHz.
Huawei Kirin 710A chip: using a 14nm chip, the large core frequency is 2.0GHz.
In this comparison, the performance of the mobile phone may be slightly affected, but it will not be too big, after all, the price is cheap.
However, Huawei's step, the commercial use of the locally produced Kirin chip 710A, is still very encouraging. Because, this means that domestic 14nm chips can be mass-produced and commercialized, and China's semiconductor industry has finally achieved a historic leap.
Under the layers of blockade and suppression in the United States, everything in the domestic semiconductor industry has to start from scratch, and this is the seed.
Although the performance of the current 14nm chip is a little worse, SMIC is a well-known "potential stock" among local semiconductor companies. SMIC, on the other hand, has been exposed to master the 7nm chip process, but the yield is lower and the cost is higher.
Therefore, if SMIC solves the yield problem and cost problem, then the mass production and commercial use of 7nm chips is still very promising. Therefore, Huawei's next new machine uses SMIC's 7nm Kirin chip, which is still very generous.
The picture shows the distribution of SMIC's foundries
In order to revive the Kirin chip, Huawei has made too many efforts and has never given up. For example, the launch of an official turning machine equipped with Kirin chips. However, this method treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and if you want to fundamentally solve the "chip disaster", you still need the rise of domestic chip replacement.
Breakthrough from zero, from scratch, from scratch, from poor to good, the performance of the current domestic chip is indeed a little worse, and it is impossible to overtake in a corner, but it is better than nothing. Only if you have it in your own hands, you can avoid the risk of being "stuck in the neck" by the United States and so on.
China's semiconductor industry will start again.