Huawei’s Kirin 970 SoC
It is based on ARM’s design with improvements made by Huawei owned company HiSilicon.
Fabrication: It is based on TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) 10nm process with amazing 5.5 billion transistors on thumbnail sized chip. The number of transistors are more than Apple A11 “Bionic” SoC
CPU: Huawei Kirin 970 is 64 bit ARM based Octa core SoC. It has 4 x ARM Cortex A73 cores running at 2.4 GHz and 4 x ARM Cortex A53 cores running at 1.8 GHz
Performance: It is 20% better in performance and 20% less power consuming than Kirin 960
GPU: It has ARM’s 12 core Mali G72 GPU running at 850 GHz
ISP (Image Signal Processor): It has dual ISPs with the capability of motion detection and low light enhancement
Video: 4 K playback at 60 fps, 4 K recording at 30 fps
Modem: High speed 1.2 Gbps category 18 Modem
NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit): NPU of Kirin 970 is half of the size of CPU but 25 x times faster and delivers 1.92 TFLOPs speed
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.2
You would see this SoC in Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro. See other SoCs in this series.
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