Yu Chengdong released "A Letter to Comrades-in-Arms" within Huawei, mentioning that the spare tire plan (Tashan Plan) for PC chips has now officially turned positive, and it has to be launched to the market within this year?
It's fake~
Normally, Huawei's flagship products have been launched in a rhythm over the years, and they will not use this kind of internal letter to mobilize, no, "insiders" came out to refute the rumors that Huawei released "A Letter to Comrades-in-Arms"
However, the reason why the big guys believe this rumor is also because the beautiful country has played the ban again:
According to foreign media reports, the United States has further tightened export restrictions on Huawei, revoking the licenses of Qualcomm and Intel Corp. to sell semiconductors.
The ban on Qualcomm chips will have some impact on Huawei's products.
However, last year, the Kirin 5G chip returned, and mobile phone products are not subject to Qualcomm chips as in previous years, and Huawei does not need to operate much.
Don't look at the performance of the Kirin 9000s and Kirin 9010 that needs to be improved, but people are not too far from the mainstream Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship core:
The Kirin 9010 processor scored 1442 points for single-core and 4471 points for multi-core in Geekbench 6.2 tests.
*Image source: Big Brother Miscellaneous
This kind of performance is paired with its own HarmonyOS OS, which is quack and smooth.
It is also understandable why the Huawei Pura 70 series was empty as soon as it came out, and Huawei really doesn't need Qualcomm's chips very much.
But Intel's ban on chips is not a trivial matter for Huawei.
According to incomplete statistics, Huawei's products using Intel chips mainly include laptops and servers, and in the first half of 2023, the proportion of Huawei laptops using Intel chips was as high as 90.7%, and the latest MateBook X Pro also uses Intel chips.
And according to Huawei's consistent practice of sanctioning me and secretly building it myself, the new generation of Kirin PC chips may not be groundless.
In fact, Huawei has launched notebook products equipped with Kirin chips, and friends who are concerned about Huawei's home products should have more or less known that Huawei's Qingyun L540 and L420 notebooks use ARM chips named Kirin 9006C.
Here is the Qingyun L540 notebook, this series is aimed at business people, the main focus is reliability, anti-spill, T-coating process anti-keyboard failure, etc.
Moreover, the system is not the traditional Windows platform, but the optional Galaxy Kirin desktop operating system or UnionTech desktop operating system, pure localization is also a highlight.
Moreover, the Kirin 9006C chip is already a chip before 2021, and the specific parameters are as follows:
Advanced 5nm process;
Eight core architecture, of which 4 cores are Huawei's self-developed Taishan architecture;
The main frequency can reach 3.13GHz;
Supports LPDDR5 memory and UFS 3.1 flash.
The performance of the Kirin 9006C chip is also not good, and the Geekbench 6 score of the Qingyun L420 is 1229 and 3577, which is indeed inferior to Apple's M-series chips and Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips.
*Image source: cnBeta
But anyway, this is not there, and there are rumors that Huawei is developing a new Kirin chip, the new product corresponds to the PC platform, and the multi-core performance surpasses Apple's M3.
The specific codename of this rumored Kirin PC chip is unknown, but the configuration is luxurious compared to the previous generation of Kirin PC chip:
The new Taishan V130 architecture is built, with 4 Taishan large cores (SMT hyper-threading), 4 Taishan medium cores (SMT hyper-threading), 8 cores and 16 threads design;
Paired with a Mali-920 GPU (said to be close to M2's GPU performance);
Two large NPU cores are integrated;
Supports up to 32GB RAM and 2TB hard drives.
Seeing the two large NPU cores, if nothing else, the main focus of this chip is in terms of artificial intelligence computing, which has been very popular in the past two years, and it is said that there will be two models: the standard version and the Pro version.
As for the first product equipped with the latest Kirin PC version chip, it is likely to be the MateBook series, and it is likely to bring HarmonyOS NEXT to the debut, so it will not be seen until September at the earliest.
That's right, the self-developed HarmonyOS PC version of the core is available, how can the self-developed HarmonyOS be absent? On April 14, China Mobile "accidentally" released the system interface of the PC version of HarmonyOS NEXT.
From the UI point of view, it's a bit like macOS.,The settings interface is a bit of a tablet interface.,The whole is refreshing and concise.,And there's a moiré pattern on the interface.,It means it's the developer's version.,Good guys,The new MateBook is equipped with the PC version of HarmonyOS NEXT.,It's really not a small possibility.。
The performance of the new Kirin PC chip is certainly not comparable to that of the 14th Gen Core i9 processor, after all, Intel has been immersed in this aspect for many years.
However, if you think about the experience of Huawei's flagship mobile phone with Kirin Core + HarmonyOS OS, maybe the MateBook experience with the blessing of the new Kirin PC chip and the PC version of HarmonyOS NEXT is also T0.
The most important thing is that, according to Huawei's concept, this Hongmeng system must be connected to mobile phones and tablet PCs, and when the time comes, the self-developed chip + the operating system of the Internet of Everything, I will ask you if you are excited, right?
In fact, on the whole, in the face of the current complex external situation, Huawei's ability to resist attacks is outrageous.
At the beginning of this year, Yu Chengdong said in an internal letter at the beginning of this year, "In the past few years, in the face of rounds of sanctions and suppression, the tenacious terminal soldiers did not waste the opportunity of this crisis, but burst out with greater energy, believing that there are more ways than difficulties, and learn to drive against the wind." ”
Intel and Qualcomm ban on exporting chips to Huawei, it's a small scene for Huawei, "A Letter to My Comrades-in-Arms" is fake, but this Kirin PC version of the chip, you can look forward to it.
Resources:
Zhongguancun Online: Performance surpasses M2! Huawei Kirin is available on the PC platform
Zhongguancun Online: Huawei plans to launch a Kirin PC chip or will compete with Snapdragon X Elite and Apple's M series
Sina Technology:【#知情人士回应华为发布致战友们的一封信#】
Big Brother Talk: How is the Kirin 9010? There are no surprises in the running scores, netizens: energy efficiency is the key
cnBeta: Huawei's Kirin 9006C single-core and multi-core scores show that the SoC's performance is not satisfactory
Edit: Crispy shrimp