Chipsets are a difficult item to talk about when talking about Huawei. That’s because the US has banned foundries that use US-made technology to produce chips from shipping them to the Chinese manufacturer. And what makes it so urgent this year is that Apple and Huawei are the first to integrate chips made using the 5nm process node into their products. Simply put, the lower the number of process nodes, the more transistors that fit into a square mm. This usually means that more transistors are inside the component, providing better performance with more energy efficiency.
Twitter informant says Huawei will have 3nm Kirin chipset called 9010
As an example, Apple’s A13 Bionic chipset, used in the 2019 iPhone 11 series, was produced by TSMC using its 7nm process node. The density of the transistors is 90 million transistors per square millimeter and these SoCs each contain 8.5 billion transistors. This year’s A14 Bionic, found inside the iPhone 12 range, uses the 5nm process node and is filled with 134 million transistors per square mm, for a total of 11.8 billion transistors in each chip. Huawei, hit hard by new US export rules, was TSMC’s second customer after Apple until the ban takes effect. This year, Huawei was able to take some deliveries of the Kirin 9000 before the ban began and the components are being used on the company’s new flagship line Mate 40. They are also intended for the sequel to the foldable Huawei Mate X (possibly referred to as the Mate X2). and 5G base stations that work with the outfit’s 5G network equipment.
Current 5nm Kirin 9000 to be replaced by next-gen 3nm Kirin 9010, Twitter tipster says
Despite the US Department of Commerce’s export rules, which have led many analysts to believe that Huawei’s Kirin line will no longer be after the Mate 40 series and the Kirin 9000, some of those “in the know” say the line Next year’s P50 will also be powered by the Kirin 9000. And today,
a Twitter tipster going through Teme’s grip (@ RODENT950) released a terse tweet that might be short on words but long on meaning. The next generation Kirin chip, he says, will be the 3nm Kirin 9010. How this will be accomplished is not explained, although some analysts believe that US President-elect Joe Biden may not continue to punish Huawei as harshly as Donald. Trump did so during his tenure as president. Biden takes office on January 20.
In addition to preventing Huawei from receiving the chips it designed itself (which were made by TSMC), the Trump administration last year called the maker of phones and network equipment a threat to national security and placed him on the entity list, preventing him from obtaining parts made by the United States. companies. The move also prevented Google from doing business with the Chinese manufacturer, which could have hampered sales of international models. But in China, most of Google’s Android apps are banned anyway. Still, this decision forced Huawei to develop its own ecosystem which has proven to be well received by users.
In 2016, Huawei chief consumer officer Richard Yu set himself an ambitious goal. By 2021, the executive has said it will pass Samsung to become the world’s largest smartphone maker. Earlier this year, Huawei actually briefly regained first place in the first quarter. But as the United States continued to make life difficult for the company, Huawei was forced to sell its Mark of honor for $ 15 billion. Responsible for 26% of Huawei’s phone sales last quarter, or roughly 13.4 million units, the end result is that Huawei will fall behind Samsung by a larger margin. Honor will become the eighth largest phone maker in the world ahead of well-known companies like LG and Motorola.
