Huawei roars back to form with its flagship smartphone the Pura 70 Ultra, boasting an innovative 4-camera system and tremendous battery life. Its chip is inferior, but still fast, and software fine.
The Pura 70 series Huawei unveiled last week sports the Kirin 9010 processor, consultancy TechInsights found in a teardown of the device. That s a newer version of the Kirin 9000s made by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. for the Mate 60 Pro, which alarmed officials in Washington who thought a 7-nanometer chip beyond China s capabilities.
Kirin 9010 and Snapdragon 888+ rumored for late 2021: 3 nm process for HiSilicon s chip, possibly to appear in a Huawei Mate 50 smartphone
The 5 nm Kirin 9000 is the SoC used in the Huawei Mate 40 Pro. (Image source: Huawei)
It has been rumored that a HiSilicon Kirin 9010 chipset based on a 3 nm manufacturing process could be released in the second half of 2021, possibly to feature in a Huawei Mate 50 smartphone. On top of that, it’s also believed Qualcomm will produce a Snapdragon 888+ SoC at around the same time.
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A known tech tipster has gone for broke with some outlandish rumors that would be incredible if genuine. The self-professed “tech lover” @RODENT950 starts off by claiming that Huawei’s next chip out of its wholly owned semiconductor company, HiSilicon, will be called the Kirin 9010. No surprise there, considering the Kirin 9000 has already been showing what it can get up to in a Mate 40 Pro smartphone.