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Huawei reportedly working on 10 nm Kirin 970 processor

Huawei reportedly working on 10 nm Kirin 970 processor

Posted: 23 Nov 2016, 09:19 , posted by Milen Y.

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Huawei reportedly working on 10 nm Kirin 970 processor

On the heels of Kirin 960's debut last month, new rumors are suggesting that Huawei is already working on a next generation processor. Predictably dubbed the Kirin 970, the new chip will reportedly be a big leap in terms of performance from the 960, which was built on the FinFET 16 nm process just like the Kirin 950.

The Kirin 970 is said to be an octa-core chip built on the 10 nm process and will reportedly support global LTE. Huawei's decision to switch to the 10nm process for its next-gen silicon may have been spurned by recent announcements from Qualcomm and Samsung whose next processors, the Snapdragon 835 and the Exynos 8895, will be built on Samsung's new 10 nm process and be able to fit 30 percent more transistors than current 14 nm offerings.

There is no info yet regarding Kirin 970's debut, but it will likely power Huawei's 2017 high-end flagships and come out in time to compete with 10nm offerings from Samsung, Qualcomm, and MediaTek.

source: GizmoChina

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posted on 23 Nov 2016, 09:49 2

1. trojan_horse (banned) (Posts: 5868; Member since: 06 May 2016)

Ha, Huawei might finally have something worthy to compete with Snapdragon and Exynos.

But let me not get ahead of myself, as Huawei's Kirin SoC isn't beating the Snapdragon anytime soon.

posted on 23 Nov 2016, 10:15 1

4. yann (Posts: 604; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)

Kirin 960 is better in multicore even from A10 chip. Single core is also better than any Snapdragon and Exynos. Only A10 is better in single core.

posted on 23 Nov 2016, 11:18 2

6. belosava (Posts: 127; Member since: 14 Apr 2014)

Fanboy trolling

posted on 23 Nov 2016, 13:15

7. patrioticwarrior (banned) (Posts: 134; Member since: 09 Nov 2016)

Kirin 960 is even worse than mediatek

posted on 24 Nov 2016, 02:07

9. Novage (Posts: 51; Member since: 10 Nov 2015)

Kirin 960 is the best Android soc right now

posted on 23 Nov 2016, 09:54 1

2. aegislash (Posts: 1420; Member since: 27 Jan 2015)

Functionality aside, Kirin is such an ugly name. Snapdragon and Exynos sound so much more bada**.