If Huawei manages to deliver on all the promises of this chip without the expected side effects, it could very well have a formidable competitor that could further push the Chinese OEM into the worldwide mobile market. While a few of those might not exactly be new to our ears, Huawei’s Kirin chips aren’t exactly as mainstream as, say, a Snapdragon, an Exynos, or even a MediaTek.
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Huawei today unveiled their next generation of Kirin SoC in an event in Beijing, China. Huawei claims that this technology has better power efficiency and is touted as the first SoC that employs the 16 nm FinFET process from TSMC. According to Huawei, this processor can allow a 3500 mAh battery to last up to ten hours more on normal smartphone use. Subsequently, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, which hasn’t been officially released yet, has also posted scores similar to the Kirin 950. The launch of the Kirin 950 arrived after a number of rumors indicated that it beat the Exynos 7420 in a GeekBench test. The company has included a latest gen Mali T880MP GPU with their chip.
The processor, dubbed as the Kirin 950, is a 64-bit octa-core processor that consists of four high-performance Cortex-A72 cores that run at 2.3 Ghz and four low-powered Cortex-A53 cores with a speed of 1.8 Ghz, Slash Gear reported. Compared to previous Kirin chipsets, the Kirin 950 has increased performance by 40 percent and reduced power consumption by 60 percent. Other notable additions include enhanced LPDDR4 RAM, and a new i5 sensor hub, which is said to be almost two times efficient now.
Furthermore, Huawei Kirin 950 comes with full support for LTE Cat.
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Huawei is already teasing the launch of the Mate 8 on November 26, and there are big chances that new handset will feature the new processor. What we do know for a fact, however, is that the Kirin 950 turned out a score of 82,945 in the AnTuTu benchmark. That’s when we will be able to see the new chip in action and we will judge its performance.
