On September 26, it was reported that Huawei's Kirin processor is the absolute leader in the domestic mobile SOC field. Shortly after the launch of the Kirin chip, some people speculated that Huawei might provide it to other mobile phone manufacturers. However, Huawei has repeatedly said that the Kirin chip will not be sold. Brody Ji, the senior product director of Huawei Consumer Business Group, talked about this issue again recently. He said, "For Huawei, Kirin is not a business, but a product or technology, which can be used as our competitive advantage against our competitors' smartphone brands."

Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, also said at Huawei's global analyst conference in April 2018 that Kirin chips are not Huawei's business of generating revenue externally, but exist to achieve Huawei's hardware differentiation. The company has no plan to sell Kirin chips externally.

At present, the latest processor of Huawei is the Kirin 980 released by IFA this year, which will be applied to Huawei Mate 20 series mobile phones. Kirin 980 is the world's first mobile phone chip with a 7nm process. It has 6.9 billion transistors in an area of less than 100 square millimeters! Compared with the previous generation Kirin 970, its performance is 75% higher and its power consumption is 58% lower.

Thanks to the cooperation with Arm, Kirin 980 took the lead in adopting the Arm Cortex A76 architecture, which is also the first SoC in the world to adopt this new architecture. At the same time, in order to improve the user experience, Huawei has creatively adopted the big, medium and small core three gear design of two A76 with a main frequency of 2.6GHz, two A76 with a main frequency of 1.9GHz and four A55 with a main frequency of 1.8GHz, so as to achieve different flexible scheduling in different scenarios, improve the energy consumption ratio of the Kirin 980, and enhance the endurance.

In addition, the Kirin 980 is no inferior in terms of gpu, becoming the first product in the industry to use the Mali-G76 MP10. Compared with the G72 MP12 of the Kirin 970, the performance of the Kirin 980 has been improved by 46%, and the energy efficiency ratio has been improved to 178%!

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