Huawei Mate 9 rumoured with 10nm Kirin 970 chipset


Itā€™s almost like we canā€™t go a week without more Huawei news, and today it concerns the upcoming Huawei Mate 9 and itā€™s new power plant.

Huawei have seen great leaps in sales and popularity over the years, with part of their success coming down to using their own range of self-developed Kirin chipsets.

The Kirin range powers all of Huaweiā€™s current flagships, and will continue to do so in the Huawei Mate 9, but in the form of the Kirin 970 using a new 10nm process.

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This is still very much in the rumour stages, but a 10nm chipset from Huawei could rival Mediatekā€™s Helio X30 as being one of the first new processors to use the smaller, more efficient manufacturing process.

Apparently the Kirin 970 SoC will include Cat 6 to Cat 12 LTE support and run a Mali-G71 GPU.

As for the Mate 9, well all we know for now is that it could run dual 20 mega-pixel cameras and be wrapped up in a new slender alloy chassis.

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5 Comments

  1. MattD
    July 6, 2016

    “upcoming”… Come on, we’re months away from launch, give it a rest at least for a while!

  2. Yep
    July 6, 2016

    4 Core A73 hopefully

  3. realjjj
    July 6, 2016

    Nope,10nm won’t be available this year while Mate 9 has to launch this year.
    10nm is for Mate 10 in 1 year+.
    TSMC will start 10nm volume production in Q2 2017 , that means they start shipping finished products in Q3 and at best a few months later we see devices in retail. So even if the schedule changes a bit , it’s still 1y+ out.

  4. NextHype
    July 6, 2016

    dual 20MP !! that’s a shitload of pixels xD
    Combined to something like Oppo’s Ultra-HD tech it may become a beast.

  5. July 7, 2016

    I`m really excited for the Mali G71, as this will be the mainstream GPU that puts smartphone gaming on par with consoles/pc’s.
    Looking forward to actual tests done with a MP32 version(probably the next EXynoss on 10nm)