Is Huawei about to pull a special card up its sleeve in the battle for smart rule?
According to an industry leaker, its flagship processor is about to get a boost, according to a report in GizmoChina.
Oddly enough, it’s only been a few months since Huawei announced the Kirin 9000 processor.
The disc set is available in two variants – the Kirin 9000 and Kirin 9000E – and is only found in the Mate 40 series’ smartphone, reports GizmoChina.
Now an industry-savvy has revealed details about the next flagship Kirin processor, which is reportedly called the Kirin 9010.
The information about the new Kirin processor comes from the leaker @ RODENT950, and according to the tweet, the next Kirin processor should arrive as the Kirin 9010 and it will be a 3nm chipset, reports GizmoChina.
The Kirin 9000 has been introduced as the first 5nm processor for Android devices and after the announcement comes the Samsung Exynos 1080 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888.
While most people expect Huawei to stick to the 5nm process for at least two years, it seems from the leak that it will make the leap to 3nm for its next mobile chipset, which if it goes well, should start this year and possibly appear in the measure. 50 series by Q4, reports GizmoChina.
The speculation is that other chipmakers like Qualcomm could follow suit and switch to 3nm for their next generation flagship chipset if the news about Huawei’s 3nm chipset is true.
The San Diego-based company is expected to announce a Snapdragon 888 Plus chipset later this year, which should be a 5nm processor like its sibling, but at a higher clock speed, reports GizmoChina.
In contrast, Samsung is reported to skip the 4nm process and jump to 3nm.
Apple is also expected to announce 3nm processors to be built by TSMC, but it is not expected to arrive until 2022. So there is a chance that Huawei will be the first manufacturer to announce a 3nm chipset.
Disk processors are defined in nanometers (nm), in which the number defines the distance between transistors and other components within the CPU.
The smaller the number, the more transistors that can be placed within the same area, enabling faster, more efficient processor designs.
Smaller transistors also consume less energy, which means lower power consumption. And because of the lower power consumption, there is a lower heat dissipation, which means cooler processors.
However, it is not as easy as it sounds – the process of reducing these processes. To make smaller transistors, very precise instruments and machines are needed, and therefore processors built on smaller processes will be more expensive than older, larger ones.
Moore’s Law, an old remark that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every year while halving the cost, is long held, but has declined recently.
In the late 90s and early 2000s, transistors shrank by half every two years, leading to major improvements on a regular schedule. But further contraction has become more complicated.
These new processors are the first major shrinkage in a long time, and it’s a brief re-ignition of Moore’s law.
Sources: GizmoChina, TechTerms, HowToGeek, TheTechSite