https://wccftech.com/huawei-kirin-710-to-take-on-qualcomm-snapdragon-710/

Huawei’s fabless semiconductor company, HiSilicon Technologies is apparently gearing up to release a new chip that will occupy the upper section of the mid-range smartphone market and it will reportedly be called the Kirin 710. According to industry sources and as apparent by the name of the chip, it will compete with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 710. To be honest, the name of the chipset was a dead giveaway on what Huawei was up to.

The Kirin 710 can be thought of as a successor to the Kirin 659. It has Huawei’s architecture based on the Cortex-A73 CPUs and it is made using the using a 12nm node at TSMC. Just like HiSilicon’s high-end chip Kirin 970, the Kirin 710 also has a dedicated NPU (neural processing unit) for AI-related tasks. The Snapdragon 710 does not feature an NPU and relies on the GPU and Digital Signal Processor for similar tasks. The Snapdragon 730, which is said to be made on Samsung’s 8nm LPP process is said to feature an NPU called the NPU120.