Kirin 980 Will Bring Amazing Camera Features to Huawei Mate 20 Series

Sep. 25, 2018

Huawei’s Kirin 980 is theworld’s first-ever 7nm processor– even if Apple’s iPhones are the first phones in the market with a 7nm SoC – and that’s just one of the many firsts that the Chinese giant claims to have achieved with its latest flagship chipset.

Huawei’s flagship Kirin 980 now boasts of 8 cores in a new architecture with 2 Turbo cores, 2 Sustained cores, and 4 Efficiency cores. There’s also the new Mali-G76 GPU and a dual-core NPU on board.

Recently, we had a chance to interact with Huawei’s Brody Li and other executives to learn a bit more in-depth about the Kirin 980. The overall impression is that the Chinese giant is very keen on bringing its new chip to the market to open up an array of features in its next-gen flagships, including a major bump in video recording capabilities.

This makes it possible for the Kirin 980 to recognize real-world objects more quickly, while it has also resulted in joint and line detection in moving subjects, ultimately leading toreal-time detection of objects in a video(multiple frames) instead of the still photograph (more specifically, one single frame). The dual NPU powers all the on-device AI computational tasks.

Li also spoke about the use of dual-ISP on Kirin 980, which has been tweaked to improve the experience in phones withtriple rear-camera setup(first seen on the Huawei P20 Pro). The dual-ISP is put to use to further reduce noise, improve color reproduction in the final image, with some help from the dual-core NPU.

The company’s use of a dual-core NPU, coupled with real-time image and video processing adds weight to arecent XDA reportthatshed light on the boatload of new camera features, which are presumably coming in EMUI 9 to the Mate 20 Pro series.

Th upcoming Huawei device could potentially allow the users to apply filters to videos in real-time, or shoot videos with live bokeh effects to highlight subjects against a busy background, or even to automatically zoom-in on objects in a video for greater effect. This may sound unbelievable right now, but you might see these features in action atMate 20 Pro‘slaunch on October 16next month.

So, are you excited about Huawei’s upcoming phone powered by Kirin 980? Tell us in the comments down below.