Huawei presents Kirin 990 as the first flagship chipset to have 5G integration

Chinese tech giant Huawei recently introduced Kirin 990 as its most capable and innovative chipset since it is claimed to deliver superior performance and power efficiency.

Huawei's Kirin 990 series

What makes the Kirin 990 series special?

The Kirin 990 series is created with one of the leading 7nm technology combined with a EUV manufacturing process.

The combination of these two results in competitive performance, power efficiency, and transistor density. Huawei also stated that this has the most intricate 5G SoC with most transistors and the most comprehensive functions as there are 10.3B transistors in an area that is tiny as a fingernail. 

Also, the Kirin 990 chip merges the processor and the 5G baseband into a single unit that is claimed to result in its best performance and 5G connection.  Apart from that, it significantly boosts chip integration while lowering power consumption and heat generation. As seen on the Mate 30, it gives a great 5G connection experience with support for 2G/3G/4G/5G networks, NSA + SA networking modes. It also has 5G + 4G dual card dual standby, as well as FDD+TDD full frequency bands. This smartphone, in particular, can download a movie or game data in just a few seconds.

Huawei also showcased the 16-Core Mali-G76 GPU of the Kirin 990 series. As explained, it has a three-level power-efficient architecture for CPU, comprising of two supersized cores, two big cores, and four micro cores, which delivers the main frequency up to 2.86GHz. This chipset also reported having the largest GPU known as the 16-core Mali-G76 GPU cluster. Additionally, it sports a system-level Smart Cache for improved gaming experience and image quality.

A better experience in mobile gaming

Unlike the usual practices that concentrate only on the temporal NR, Huawei stated that Kirin 990 is the first to implement dual-domain NR. NR to videos with hybrid frequencies is added for an accurate noise separation to produce sharper video images in low light conditions. Also, there are an AI segmentation tunes images colors delicately, offering cinema-grade viewing experiences. 

Another feature that was discussed by Huawei is the Face AR. This one enables s face modeling, real-time tracking, and facial expression capturing, and even health data analysis. Face AR is possible with the upgraded ISP of Kirin 990.

Heart and breathing rate can be monitored

Lastly, Huawei discussed Kirin 990 as the first to have self-developed Da Vinci NPU architecture for a state-of-the-art computing architecture of dual big NPU cores and micro NPU cores.

AI scores of the Snapdragon and Exynos Note10/Note10+ versus the Kirin 990 5G-powered Mate 30

This is claimed to result in outstanding performance and productivity for apps that need heavy loaded computing. 

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