Every week in the past, a leak confirmed the digicam island design for the upcoming Huawei Mate 70 sequence. The brand new fashions are anticipated to function a brand new Kirin chipset and now we now have our first glimpse of it.
First glimpse of the HiSilicon Kirin 9100 chip that can be used within the Huawei Mate 70 sequence
Dubbed the Kirin 9100, this chip can be manufactured on a 6nm node (SMIC N+3). That’s a step up from the 7nm Kirin 9000S chips that had been used within the Mate 60 sequence, however nonetheless behind the semiconductor nodes that different chipset designers have entry to.
Telegram consumer @spektykles posted this picture displaying the {hardware} make-up of the brand new chip, which is code named “HiSilicon Baltimore”. It brings the primary Cortex-X CPU core for Kirin household. And, apparently, it’s an all-ARM design with all CPU cores coming from the Cortex lineup. That is not like the Kirin 9000S, which used Taishan massive and center cores (designed by HiSilicon) and 4 Cortex-A510 because the little cores. Here’s a side-by-side comparability
| Kirin 9000S | Kirin 9100 (rumored) | |
|---|---|---|
| Node | 7nm | 6nm |
| CPU, massive | 1x Taishan Massive @ 2.62GHz | Cortex-X1 @ 2.67GHz |
| CPU, mid | 3x Taishan Mid @ 2.15GHz | Cortex-A78 @ 2.32GHz |
| CPU, small | 4x Cortex-A510 @ 1.53GHz | Cortex-A55 @ 2.02GHz |
| GPU | Maleoon 910 MP4 | Maleoon 910? |
The GPU is listed as “Mali-TBEX”, however it is going to seemingly be a Maleoon design (from HiSilicon), maybe the identical one which we noticed on the 9000S and 9010, judging by the second picture.
The CPU is made up of pretty outdated elements. The Cortex-X1 was paired with A78 and A55 again within the Snapdragon 888 period, whereas MediaTek by no means launched a chip with the X1 (the Dimensity 9000 makes use of the X2, A710 and A510). The node isn’t wherever close to the leading edge too, which retains clock speeds low. Actually, they’ve barely moved in comparison with the 7nm chip.
US sanctions are preserving HiSilicon from utilizing newer Cortex designs and extra superior semiconductor nodes, which is holding again the Kirin designs.
The Huawei Pura 70 Extremely with a Kirin 9010 confirmed mid-ranger efficiency in our exams and whereas we anticipate that the 9100 can be a strong enhance with its new CPU, it is going to nonetheless be effectively behind trendy Android chipsets.
