On September 25, Huawei's autumn full-scene conference arrived as scheduled, and as everyone speculated before, the three new machines of the Mate60 series that have been sold and put on the shelves and the new folding screen Mate X5 did not appear at this conference.
The outside world broke the news that the expiration of the cooperation between Huawei and Porsche Design has also been confirmed, and Huawei launched the Mate60 RS Extraordinary Master Edition, replacing RS Porsche Design, priced from 11999 yuan.
What is even more surprising is that although the disassembly and testing have shown that the Mate60 series and MateX5 are equipped with the returned Kirin chip and support 5G, everyone is looking forward to Yu Chengdong throwing out a series of "far ahead" while introducing it. But at the press conference, for the Kirin 9000S chip and 5G, Yu Chengdong still "did not mention".
This may be because, first of all, the return of the Kirin 9000S chip is just the beginning, whether it is process or performance, it is indeed not "far ahead".
According to the Geekbench 6.0 test data uploaded on the Internet, it is expected that the Kirin 9000S using the equivalent 7nm process will score 1320 points in single-core and 4026 points in multi-core.
The 3nm chip A17 Pro equipped with the iPhone 15 Pro series has single-core and multi-core scores of 2914 points and 6984 points, and the Kirin 9000S single-core score is less than half of it, and the multi-core score is less than 60%. That's just the CPU, the A17 Pro's GPU performance, close to twice the Kirin 9000S.
Running score data shows that the Kirin 9000S is very far from the current top A17Pro. Many digital bloggers said that the performance of the Kirin 9000S should be between Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 8Gen1.
TechInsights Vice Chairman Hatcherson believes that although the Kirin 9000S is not the most advanced, it is also within the range of 2-2.5 nodes from the most advanced technology.
Industry insiders said that 2-2.5 nodes, that is, it takes about 3 to 5 years to reach the most advanced process. From 7nm upwards there are 6nm, 5nm, 4nm, and then 3nm, according to Moore's Law and the current situation of the domestic semiconductor industry, the research and development process will be very difficult.
Considering that while catching up, the chip technology of Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek is still improving, so the time for Kirin to catch up with friends may be longer.
The gap between the Kirin 9000S and the most advanced process chips is naturally very clear to Huawei. Previously, Xu Zhijun, rotating chairman of Huawei, said: Although there is a gap between the chips we produce and foreign production, if we do not use them, this gap will always be a gap, and backwardness will always be backwardness.
Secondly, Yu Chengdong did not disclose the specific parameters of the Kirin 9000S, which can also avoid further suppression by the United States. Previously, some US lawmakers suggested increasing the technological blockade of Huawei.
It is reported that the United States is investigating which chip manufacturer Kirin 9000S is, whether it is SMIC, or TSMC, or other manufacturers. Not disclosing the Kirin 9000S can make the United States unable to start.
After Huawei launched the Pioneer Program in the Mate 60 series, it held a meeting to prohibit channel vendors from promoting Kirin chips and 5G, and the promotional signboards made by channel vendors were also removed. Therefore, the Kirin 9000S was not mentioned at the autumn conference, which also shows that Huawei continues to adhere to the strategy of chip confidentiality.
Surprised? At Huawei's autumn conference, Yu Chengdong still did not mention the Kirin 9000S and 5G. Did you buy the Mate60 series and which one did you choose?