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5nm process. It has an eight-core CPU with 1x Cortex-A77 @ 3.13GHz, 3x Cortex-A77 @ 2.54GHz and 4x Cortex-A55 @ 2.05GHz, with clock speed of 3.13GHz. It uses the 24-core Mali-G78, the Kirin Gaming+ 3.0 GPU and can work at 759MHz with 2.3TFLOPS. The Mali-G78 also uses AI in gaming
for voice and object recognition. Moreover, the SoC uses Huawei’s Da Vinci Architecture 2.0, optimised for parallel processing. It uses the Balong 5000 chipset for cellular communication and a 5G multimode chipset that supports 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks. It also leads the way in terms of 5G peak download rates, achieving 4.6Gbps in the sub-6GHz frequency bands – twice the industry average. Kirin 9000 stands up to Apple and
its competitors, making smartphones work seamlessly. Due to the pandemic, HiSilicon didn’t start manufacturing the Kirin 9006C until September 2020. The processor is earmarked for the
MateBook from Huawei, called Qingyun L420 – which will be the first Huawei notebook to use such a 5nm processor.
The A15’s specifications may look highly
convincing but that doesn’t make it a clear winner. The A15 may have a clock speed of 3.23GHz but it also has fewer cores than the Snapdragon 888+. The A15’s GPU clock speed is 1.20GHz,
but it can’t beat the Adreno 660, which does 1.7TFLOPS (trillion FP32 floating point operations), whereas A15 does only 1.5TFLOPS. Moreover, the Snapdragon 888+ uses AI to perform better, making it perfectly suitable for AI systems like Google Assistant.
HiSilicon Kirin 9600C Besides Apple and Qualcomm, there is a Chinese company that manufactures ARM processors similar to Snapdragon 888. HiSilicon makes a wide range of processors for computers and smartphones; its Kirin 9000 series is aimed at high-end smartphones that require powerful processors. Kirin is the world’s first 5nm 5G SoC, released in 2020 and fabricated on TSMC’s
20 October 2022
www.electronicsworld.co.uk
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