It can be said that this Kirin processor has always been a very peculiar existence, and we simply cannot judge him by the existing standards. In fact, there are not many models of Kirin chips, we commonly have Kirin 950 Kirin 960 Kirin 970 Kirin 980 Kirin 990 Kirin 8000 Kirin 9000 and Kirin 9000S, of which Kirin 950 960 970 is already a machine many years ago. I remember that these processors were said to be guaranteed to be free of cards for more than a year, but now there are still many Kirin 970 980 users, let's take the Kirin 980 as an example, this processor has been more than four years, and it still doesn't feel that there is too obvious lag. At the beginning, the Kirin 980 was declared to be 500 days without a card, and everyone calculated that it was several 500 days.
As for the Kirin 9000 and above models, there is really no way to confirm how long he can use it, because these processors don't seem to have very high parameters on the surface, if you compare the Snapdragon processor, the Kirin 9000 and Kirin 9000S can only be compared with the Snapdragon 888, but the actual experience he can still compete with the Snapdragon 8gen3. It is estimated that many people here don't understand, obviously a 7-nanometer chip, how did he do it and be undefeated in comparison.
In fact, for mobile phones, when the hardware performance reaches a certain height, we can't just look at the hardware performance, we also need to combine the optimization of the mobile phone system. You can see that the mobile phone processor has basically been in a state of overperformance in recent years, especially when the processor reaches Snapdragon 888 or Kirin 990 or above, he can fully meet the needs of mainstream applications. Let's not talk about the Kirin 990 and Snapdragon 888 here, there are many Kirin 980 and Snapdragon 865 models that can run smoothly.
As for the Kirin 9000, we haven't been able to understand his performance, and he always gives us some unexpected surprises. Judging from the performance of the Kirin 9000, it would be good if he could use it for three or five years. But have you noticed that since Huawei mobile phones have changed from Android to HarmonyOS system, every time the version is updated, the performance of this Kirin 9000 will be improved once, especially after updating to HarmonyOS 4.0, some of the performance of this Kirin 9000 can really be tied with Snapdragon 8gen3. While other Snapdragons release new flagship processors every year, the Kirin 9000 relies on system optimization to achieve the same level, which shows how important this system optimization is. I'm thinking here that if Huawei was not restricted by the United States, then the latest Kirin chips should easily surpass the Snapdragon 8 series processors.
At this stage, I can only tell you that the Kirin 9000 series processors can run all current games and applications smoothly. There is no problem with another three or five years, the most representative model is Huawei Mate 40Pro Huawei Mate60Pro, but I will give you an answer that you can't believe here, that is, the Kirin 9000 series processor will not have any problems for another ten years, because Huawei is about to launch a pure HarmonyOS HarmonyOS 5.0 version, this version will completely delete all Google code, and he will have his own independent ecosystem like iOS. In this way, the smoothness of the HarmonyOS system will be improved again. The performance of the Kirin 9000 series processors will also be improved again.
Final Summary:
As far as the Kirin 9000 series processor itself is concerned, there is no problem with using it for another three or five years, and it is no problem to use it for another ten years after updating the pure Hongmeng 5.0 version later. It's just that most people change their mobile phones now not because the mobile phone processor is not enough, but because the memory of the mobile phone is insufficient or the battery life cannot be adhered to. If you can accept that the replacement of batteries and memory may face a shortage of resources, there is no problem with the Kirin 9000 processor for another ten years, I don't know what friends think about this?