Huawei Kirin 990 SoC with Built-in 5G Modem Unveiled at IFA 2019
Sep. 6, 2019As for its tech specs, it comes with an octa-core CPU with four powerful Cortex-A76 cores and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores. While two of the A76 cores are clocked at 2.86GHz, the other two have clock speeds of up to 2.36Ghz. The A55 cores, meanwhile, are clocked at up to 1.95GHz. The chipset also comes with a 16-core Mali G76 GPU for gaming and other graphics processing needs.
The Kirin 990 also comes with a dedicated quad-core NPU (neural processing unit) that will be used for voice and face recognition tasks. Built on the new Da Vinci Architecture, the chip will not only support Huawei’s own HiAI platform, but also Facebook’s Tensorflow and Google’s Android NN technologies.
The Kirin 990 will be first seen in action in the Mate 30 lineup later this year before making its way to other Huawei and Honor devices,including possibly, the Mate X. However, given that the company’s fate still hangs in the balance pending a resolution of the escalating trade war between the US and China, it will be interesting to see how that will affect the company’s plans going forward.
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