Huawei Kirin 980 Processor Debut: The First TSMC 7nm Manufacturing Process

Huawei‘s press conference at the Berlin Consumer Electronics Show in Germany is underway. Just now, the latest Huawei Kirin 980 processor has been unveiled.

Yu Chengdong once referred to GPU Turbo as a very scary technology, and now Yu Chengdong came to the golden sentence, saying that the upcoming Kirin 980 processor “very terrible performance”, from scary to horror, has to say that the vocabulary is more than one More cool, and this processor built by many netizens with 7nm technology will be unveiled tonight. At the IFA2018 exhibition, which opened in Germany at the official opening this evening, Huawei will release its new flagship processor product, the Kirin 980, which is also a heavy product to succeed the Kirin 970.

Previously, I have already got some news about Kirin 980. The biggest highlight is that it will be built using the 7nm process, and the selection of the IFA exhibition at the moment will also make it a new 7nm process processor. Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business, has confirmed that it will launch the world’s first commercial 7nm process processor SoC Kirin 980 at the IFA2018 exhibition. Its performance will be far ahead of its current flagship chip, the Opteron 845. It even uses the “very terrible performance” to describe the new processor.

It is reported that Huawei cooperated with TSMC in 2015 to develop a 7nm process processor. 7nm refers to the width of the transistor gate that is the most basic component of the mobile phone processor. According to the processor of 7nm process technology, the performance of the processor is 10% higher than that of the 10nm process technology, and the energy efficiency is increased by 40%. It can also be seen from the actual performance that each generation of Kirin chips has a qualitative leap in performance and innovation. Kirin 980 will be built by TSMC’s 7nm process. In July this year, it passed the verification work before the trial production, and the design work was basically completed.

Kirin 980 has 8 CPU cores, consisting of 4 A76, 4 A55 cores, 10 GPU cores, dual ISP, i8 sensor processor and security engine. In addition, the chip also supports UFS 2.1, Wi-Fi audio, 4K video. At the same time, this is the world’s first CPU with Cortex-A76, the first dual-NPU, the first Mali-G76 GPU, the first support 2133MHz LPDDR4X memory, and the first 7nm mobile AI processor.

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There is speculation that the Kirin 980 may use the Mali G76 (12-core or 16-core) released in the same period as the A76. Its performance density is increased by 30%, power saving is 30%, and the graphics performance for mobile phones is increased by 50%. The upper limit is 20 cores.