September 25, Huawei held in Beijing to “wisdom” as the theme of the 2017 Kirin chip media communication, which is Huawei’s first artificial intelligence mobile computing platform debut China, showing the Kirin 970 in the mobile broadband connection, artificial intelligence mobile Calculation and other aspects of innovation, the domestic chip to a new height.
Compared to the previous generation of Kirin 960 16-nanometer process technology. The Kirin 970 further, using TSMC 10-nanometer process, and in less than 100 square millimeters of small size integrated 5.5 billion crystal tube body. Compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 of 3.1 billion, Apple A10’s 3.3 billion, Kirin 970 has a higher degree of integration. Power consumption than the previous generation Kirin 960 by 20%.
In terms of artificial intelligence, Huawei has designed HiAI mobile computing architecture, its AI performance density is significantly better than CPU and GPU, and provides a development version to the open source community. The mobile phone SoC with powerful AI computing power is the industry’s first mobile phone chip with a dedicated NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit) dedicated hardware processing unit.
Compared to the four Cortex-A73 cores, the new heterogeneous computing architecture has about 50x energy efficiency and 25x performance advantages when dealing with the same AI application tasks, which means that the Kirin 970 chip can be completed with a higher energy efficiency AI calculation task. For example, in the image recognition speed, up to about 2000 sheets/minute.
Not only that, the use of NPU can also achieve real-time computer computing, low-power AR, and other functions, and are in the mobile side can be achieved. You can make the phone in the original hardware based on a substantial increase in performance, but also allows the phone to become more intelligent, at any time to respond to user action instructions.
In addition, the Kirin 970 is also the first commercial Mali G72 MP12 GPU, compared with the previous generation performance increased by 20%, energy efficiency by 50%. In addition, it also uses 4.5G LTE technology to support the world’s highest LTE Cat.18 communication specifications, to achieve the industry’s highest 1.2Gbps peak download rate.
Taking pictures, the Kirin 970 chip also upgraded the dual camera ISP, support face choking technology, intelligent sports scene detection, real-time recognition of movement speed and focus shooting, and equipped with a new noise reduction technology for night shooting more natural The It uses four-mode fused focus program, self-calibration to improve the type of focus consistency, camera response time overall increase of 30%.
At the same time, the Kirin 970 first commercial dual card dual 4G dual VoLTE, the successful realization of a mobile phone on the two SIM cards are supported 4G VoLTE call, to provide the same primary and secondary card voice, video call experience.
The first New Kirin 970 chip equipped Huawei Mate 10 will be released on October 16 in Munich, Germany.