On the morning of September 25, Huawei held the Kirin 970 Communication Conference in Beijing, which will be launched by Mate10 released on October 16. The main selling points this time are AI chip and baseband. Kirin 970 is The first mobile SoC equipped with an independent neural network processing unit (NPU) is a complete mobile AI computing platform. Officially, it has formed an innovative HiAI AI architecture with CPU, GPU and DSP.

NPU can provide 25 times the performance and 50 times the energy efficiency of 4-core A73 in AI operations. In the communication meeting of Kirin 970, Huawei's development version used the display panel and shell of Mate9 to compare the image recognition speed with the mass produced S8+/iPhone 7 Plus. However, they use different core processing. The Kirin 970 uses an NPU core, with a speed of 2005 pieces/minute; The Apple platform uses GPU, 889 A11 for iPhone 8 Plus and 487 A10 for iPhone 7 Plus; The Snapdragon 835 of Samsung Galaxy S8+uses CPU, and the speed is only 95 pieces/minute. Although it can show the strength of the new NPU core to a certain extent, it is really a bit tricky to compare the Snapdragon 835 CPU. You should know that the energy efficiency ratio and performance of GPU and DSP in these projects are several times, or even dozens of times, of the CPU.

Other parameters of Kirin 970 include TSMC's 10nm process, 5.5 billion transistors (Apple's A11 is 4.3 billion), CPU energy efficiency improved by 20%, GPU upgraded to 12 core Mali-G72, performance improved by 20%, energy efficiency ratio improved by 50%, support for dual card 4G dual VoLTE, and the first commercial Cat.18 modem, with a peak speed of 1.2Gbps.

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