Kirin 980 Alleged Benchmarking Results Reveal the Advantage of Having a 7nm FinFET SoC in a Smartphone
https://wccftech.com/kirin-980-benchmarks-7nm-chipset-advantages/
Huawei, which recently clinched the title of the second-largest smartphone maker in the world, looks set to break the performance barriers with the launch of its Kirin 980. duopoly in the SoC market. Currently, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8xx series and Apple’s A series of chips seem to dominate the market, with Samsung’s Exynos processors closely behind. The Chinese smartphone maker recently showed off the latest chipset made by its semiconductor company HiSilicon and it the company’s internal testing is to be believed, this chip will make the Mate 20 incredibly fast.
Huawei revealed the details of the Kirin 980 that will fuel its next flagship smartphones at a press conference ahead of the IFA trade show. Apart from being the first chip in the world to be made using a 7nm process, the Kirin 980 is also the first SoC to feature ARM’s Mali-G76 GPU and its ARM’s Cortex-A76 CPU. It is also the first chipset with an integrated 1.4Gbps Cat.21 modem and the first one to support the blazing fast 2,133Mhz LPDDR4X memory.