The invitations to the Huawei event in IFA 2018 They have already begun to be sent and with this the rumors about what the Asian house has prepared for us have been rekindled. The press conference will take place on the day 31 August in the attractive city of Berlin, venue of the fair, and although at first it might be thought that the idea is simply to launch a new smartphone model (the Mate 20 and its Mate 20 Pro variant), some aseguran that Huawei's plans are rather different and have their own name: Kirin 980.
This is what they affirm at least in the chinese web Mydrive, where they point out that the Chinese company reserves its moment of glory in Germany to present the next generation of its precious Kirin 970 chipset. Bill Kirin HiSilicon 980 It would thus make an appearance during the event -which is estimated to last about 45 minutes, alone-, following in the wake of its predecessor, which was also presented at IFA last year.
Kirin 980 features
Huawei would thus reveal the secrets of this Kirin 980 processor that, it is said, would be made under a manufacturing process to 7nm FinFET from TSMC. The chip is expected to consist of 8 nuclei (4 cores with ARM Cortex A-77 architecture and a maximum frequency of 2.8 GHz) and another four with Cortex A-55 architecture). Its technology Artificial Intelligence It would have been renewed with the Cambrian NPU (it would be a new neural processing unit), now capable of performing greater calculations and offering better performance, in addition to having a GPU superior (by 50%) to the Adreno 630 and technology GPU Turbo.
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Everything indicates that this new brain will be giving life to the next phones in the Huawei catalog (such as the future P30 or P30 Pro -if those are the names they receive, of course-) as well as the successor to the Honor 10. Likewise, the possible setting of along the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro in the IFA 2018 It has been making a lot of noise and there are many sources that assure that precisely the Kirin 980 will be released in the German city along with the two mentioned new phones.
The truth is that this last information makes a lot more sense, given how important this fair is at a global level and the great opportunity that Huawei would lose to show there what its new chipset is capable of doing with real and direct tests on its own phones. Luckily, in a little less than a month we will all be getting rid of doubts.