According to a well-known tipster, Huawei will actually present its 5nm SoC in 2024. Huawei Central reported that Digital Chat Station said so. This chip will be manufactured by SMIC, of course.
As many of you know by now, Huawei has been heavily hit by the US sanctions. It has been that way for years, and the US has only been making things harder for Huawei as time went by.
Huawei is expected to announce its own 5nm Kirin SoC in 2024
Huawei had to be really creative along the way, and it decided to revive its Kirin chips in the process. The Kirin 9000S is the processor that the company announced last year. That is a 7nm processor manufactured by SMIC.
Now, we don’t know what the name will be for a new chip (though it could be the Kirin 9010), but it will be manufactured using a 5nm process node. Needless to say, that will attract even more attention from the US.
In any case, this new chip should be considerably more powerful than the 7nm one. Don’t expect it to fuel the Huawei P70 series, however. Chances are that this chip will arrive later in the year, and fuel the Huawei Mate 70 series.
It will be interesting to see whether the two companies can pull this off
Considering how limited Huawei and SMIC is, it will be interesting to see how will they pull this one off. SMIC does own deep ultraviolet lithography machines which are needed for something like this, though.
On top of this chip, Huawei is also allegedly working on a new advanced Neural Processing Unit (NPU). The company could opt to announce both its chip and NPU at the same time, of course.
One chip did surface on Geekbench not long ago. That processor managed to score 1,800 points in the single-core, and 4,800 points in the multi-core test. It also included a Maleoon 920 GPU. We’re not sure this is the rumored Kirin 9010, but it could be.
2024-04-10 15:08:14