Huawei launches 5nm Kirin 9000 and 9000E 5G chips!

At the launch of the new Mate40 Series, tech giant Huawei also launched its newest flagship 5G chipsets—the Kirin 9000 and Kirin 9000E.

Kirin 9000

The first 5nm mobile chips with built-in 5G!

Kirin 9000 and Kirin 9000e are the first two mobile chips in the world based on the 5nm EUV manufacturing processor with a built-in 5G modem.

Kirin 9000 is the more powerful of the two, it features 1x Cortex-A77 Super Core clocked at 3.13GHz, 3x Cortex-A77 Big Cores clocked at 2.54GHz, and 4x Cortex-A55 Efficiency Cores clocked at 2.04GHz.

52 percent faster than SD865+

The GPU is the Mali-G78 MP24 GPU with a total of 24 cores. Huawei claims that it is 60 percent faster than the Kirin 990 5G and 52 percent faster than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865+.

For AI tasks, it uses the Triple NPU (2x Big-Core + Tiny-Core) design.

Meanwhile, Kirin 9000E is a slightly toned-down chip with a similar up to 3.13GHz octa-core configuration. But, its Mali-G78 GPU is down to 22 cores and it only has a Dual NPU (Big-Core + Tiny-Core) design.

For 5G, the chips sport the 3rd-generation Balong modem which brings up to 2x faster speed than the competition.

It also has the four network synergy technology that can efficiently integrate WiFi 2.4GHz, WiFi 5GHz, main card 5G, and second card 4G for aggregated high network speed, stable low time under changing network conditions, and network optimization.

The Kirin 9000 chips also have an improved Quad ISP design (ISP 6.0) for better imaging and videos, 4K HDR video, HiFi audio, and LPDDR4X/5 RAM, UFS flash memory.

The first phones with the Kirin 9000 are the Mate40 Pro, Mate40 Pro+, and Porsche Design Huawei Mate40 RS. Meanwhile, Mate40 uses the Kirin 9000E chip.

Huawei boasts that Kirin 9000 with 15.3 billion transistors is the first chip to break the 15 billion transistor count.

An AnTuTu listing showed that it got a massive benchmark score of 693,605.

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