Huawei To Launch the Mate 20 with Kirin 980 on October 16th
by Ian Cutress on August 31, 2018 8:56 AM EST- Posted in
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Just a small note to detail one of Huawei’s announcements today: alongside the Kirin 980 announcement, Richard Yu, Huawei’s CEO, stated that their next generation flagship device, the Mate 20, will be launched on October 16th. At the heart of the new device will be that Kirin 980, which Huawei boasts as having several world firsts.
As with previous years, Huawei has announced a new flagship SoC one month and followed it 6-8 weeks later with a device announcement. It has happened the last two years, and this is no different: the Kirin 970 from last year is in at least 7 devices from Honor and Huawei now, so we expect the new Kirin 980 to be just as prolific.
For full details of the chip, head on over to Andrei’s analysis, but the specification is as follows;
| HiSilicon High-End Kirin SoC Lineup | |||
| SoC | Kirin 980 | Kirin 970 | Kirin 960 |
| CPU | 2x A76 @ 2.60 GHz 2x A76 @ 1.92 GHz @ 512KB L2's 4x A55 @ 1.80 GHz @ 128KB L2's 4MB DSU L3 |
4x A73 @ 2.36 GHz 4x A53 @ 1.84 GHz 2MB L2 |
4x A73 @ 2.36GHz 4x A53 @ 1.84GHz 2MB L2 |
| GPU | ARM Mali-G76MP10 @ 720 MHz |
ARM Mali-G72MP12 @ 746 MHz |
ARM Mali-G71MP8 @ 1037MHz |
| LPDDR4 Memory |
4x 16-bit CH LPDDR4X @ 2133MHz 34.1GB/s |
4x 16-bit CH LPDDR4X @ 1833 MHz 29.9GB/s |
4x 16-bit CH LPDDR4 @ 1866MHz 29.9GB/s |
| Storage I/F | UFS 2.1 | UFS 2.1 | UFS 2.1 |
| ISP/Camera | New Dual ISP +46% speed |
Dual 14-bit ISP | Dual 14-bit ISP (Improved) |
| Encode/Decode | 2160p60 Decode 2160p?? Encode |
2160p60 Decode 2160p30 Encode |
1080p H.264 Decode & Encode 2160p30 HEVC Decode |
| Integrated Modem | Kirin 980 Integrated LTE (Category 21/18) DL = 1400 Mbps 4x4 MIMO 3x20MHz CA, 256-QAM (5CA no MIMO) UL = 200 Mbps 2x2 MIMO 1x20MHz CA, 256-QAM |
Kirin 970 Integrated LTE (Category 18/13) DL = 1200 Mbps 5x20MHz CA, 256-QAM UL = 150 Mbps 2x20MHz CA, 64-QAM |
Kirin 960 Integrated LTE (Category 12/13) DL = 600Mbps 4x20MHz CA, 64-QAM UL = 150Mbps 2x20MHz CA, 64-QAM |
| Sensor Hub | i8 | i7 | i6 |
| NPU | Dual @ >2x perf | Yes | No |
| Mfc. Process | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 10nm | TSMC 16nm FFC |
We will be there at the launch, and if the phone matches the impressive specifications of the chip, we will be in for an interesting story.
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goatfajitas - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link
I am looking forward to this... I just got my wife a Mate 10 pro 1 month ago and I have to say it's a really nice phone, and not all bloated out like every Samsung ever.duploxxx - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link
the gui skin is still too much bloated, android one on the flag ship and sell like crazyzodiacfml - Saturday, September 1, 2018 - link
I guess Anandtech should like into this.I have a Samsung, though it is bloated, I was able to disable not often used apps with a built-in feature and Greenify. My launcher is Nova with no icons/apps on the screen. No slowdowns at all except launching apps which are not in memory.
s.yu - Saturday, September 8, 2018 - link
I agree, Samsung has support for microSD cards and on any flash tier 128GB or above keeping the (carrier specific) bloat disabled shouldn't be too much of an annoyance, they'll probably just take around 0.5GB of space and nothing else. The current Samsung Experience is pretty refined otherwise.unrulycow - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link
I agree with duploxxx, Android One is what they need to make it greatLord of the Bored - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link
Make pocket computing great again!