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As many of you know, SMIC and Huawei are preparing to release a new Kirin SoC, a 5nm one, and it could end up being more powerful than you think. This information comes from jasonwill.
Huawei’s 5nm Kirin SoC which is coming later this year will be quite powerful, it seems
On X, he said that the “next-gen Huawei Kirin flagship chip will undoubtedly have a higher overall performance than the SD8gen2”. He’s, of course, talking about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC here.
He even hinted that the actual experience with the chip could match those of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Qualcomm’s current-gen flagship, which is a 4nm chip. These are all huge promises, but it remains to be seen.
Truth be said, even with Huawei’s current-gen flagship Kirin chip, the Kirin 9010, which runs inside the Huawei Pura 70 Ultra, we did not have any problems. Sure, it’s not as powerful as Qualcomm’s offerings, but the phone it’s running inside of works great.
That chip will debut inside the Huawei Mate 70 series
Huawei and SMIC will be able to produce this 5nm processor, which is tipped to come later this year. It will debut inside the Huawei Mate 70 series. Past that, however, Huawei is hitting a roadblock.
The US ban and a ton of sanctions placed on Huawei’s back make the company unable to produce 4nm and 3nm chips. It remains to be seen what will Huawei do in order to circumvent that, however. The company managed to do a lot with limited resources, so… it remains to be seen.
Huawei is also expected to launch Android-free HarmonyOS NEXT OS later this year. That OS is coming to global devices too, but we’re not sure when will that happen. Huawei already has tons of developers on board, so… let’s see what will happen. A huge change is coming, though.
We’re not sure if HarmonyOS NEXT will debut on the Huawei P80 series globally next year or not. It sure is a possibility, though.