Huawei’s Latest 64-bit Kirin 950 SoC Chipset Surfaced Up

Not known to many people Huawei actually manufactured their own chipset, which place the company in the same level as Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung.  A few months ago, Huawei hinted that the company is working on Kirin 950 SoC, however, recently, the almost complete specification about the chipset surfaced up. Huawei has been using the Kirin line of SoC on their own flagship smartphones such as Huawei P8(Kirin 930) and Huawei Ascend Mate7 (Kirin 925).

It seems like Kirin 950 chipset is going to be a 64-bit octa-core SoC which consists of four Cortex-A53 cores and another quartet of Cortex-A72 chipsets. On top of that, the chipset promises to be able to have clock rate up to 2.4GHz with the ARM Mali T880 unit as the graphic processor.

Kirin 950 SoC will also come with a dedicated DSP audio co-processor which is a Tensilica Hi-Fi 4 DSP.  There is an i7 Co-Processor which will be responsible for the sensor hub, security and connectivity.  The internal RAM will be a dual-channel LPDDR4 which has data speed of 25.6GB/s. As for the camera, the chipset will be able to support up to 42MP camera unit, a USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 4.2.

There is no confirmation on the official launch date of Kirin 950, however, it is expected to debut together with Huawei’s next flagship smartphone which most is probably going to happen later this year.

Huawei’s Latest 64-bit Kirin 950 SoC Chipset Surfaced Up

Chinese giant Huawei announces it octa-core Kirin 620 chipset

Last week, Huawei announced its own new chipset for mid-range devices namely the Kirin 620 SoC. Eventhough, not being the top of the line chipset the CPU offers a pretty good 64bit architecture with nearly eight cores clocked at 1.2GHz. This is a 28nm chip that is based on the Cortex A53 having an LPDDR3 RAM support. The chip offers a plenty of connectivity options like TD-SCDMA, GSM, WCDMA, LTE FDD, TD-LTE and even supports Cat 4 LTE for 150Mbps speeds range. The chip has a Mali 450 MP4 GPU and the camera support includes for a 13MP sensor with a facility of video encoding and decoding upto 1080p resolution at 30Hz.

The performance comparison for the chipset competes to that of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 410. Both the chipsets have a 64-bit architecture with a clock at 1.2GHz, however Kirin 620 takes the edge over with its 8 core CPU. However, we think that there would not be a much noticeable difference between the two. The inclusion of the Mali 450 GPU in the long run can prove to be a drawback, but it seems that for the time being Huawei would not face much hurdles for this. We would be waiting to see a Huawei smartphone with the Kirin 620 chipset being released soon in the market.

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Chinese giant Huawei announces it octa-core Kirin 620 chipset