Huawei to Unveil Kirin 990 SoC on September 6 at IFA 2022

The much-awaited smartphone exhibition, IFA 2019, is right around the corner. Telephone makers accept started teasing the new devices they volition launch in Berlin, Deutschland at the event. Afterward LG and Nokia, Huawei has at present confirmed its presence at the issue and revealed that information technology will unveil the next iteration of its flagship chipset, the HiSilicon Kirin 990.

Kirin 990 SoC will be manufactured by Huawei-endemic HiSilicon and volition be produced on TSMC'south 7nm EUV procedure (like to the recently launched Exynos 9825 chipset) which ways transistor density twenty% higher than its predecessor. Information technology also translates to improved power efficiency.

If you're wondering if the chipset will be based on the ARM architecture or non, well, it is going to feature the Cortex A77 CPU cores and Mali G-77 GPU. Huawei will take licensed the same prior to its blacklisting and it'due south the latest from ARM, so information technology just makes sense for the Chinese giant to adopt it on their upcoming chipset. This will be paired with Huawei's dual-NPU and AI engineering science, enabling support for 4K/60fps video recording for the kickoff time on a Kirin chipset.

The teaser video in a higher place doesn't give abroad any of the features of the Kirin 990, except for the fact that the chipset may come integrated with a 5G modem. Yeah, most of the chipsets we have seen support 5G in 2019 are ones where a standard modem is replaced with a 5G one. Kirin 990 may support 5G out-of-the-box, integrated with the chipset and that's great.

As is ever the example, Huawei's new Mate flagship volition be the first smartphone from the company to be powered by the Kirin 990 chipset. So, Huawei Mate xxx Pro volition launch in September with this chipset in tow, perchance forth with their Mate X foldable, which has recently also been rumored to be powered by the Kirin 990.