Huawei announce Kirin 950 SoC for high end smartphones and tablets

Huawei’s Kirin 950 is an upcoming System-on-Chip for mobile devices like Smartphones and Tablets. The new chip has 4x Cortex A72 cores that can be clocked up to 2.53GHz, 4x Cortex A53 cores that can be clocked at 1.8GHz setup in a big.LITTLE architecture. The graphics power is provided by Mali T880MP4 GPU. There is a sensor monitoring co-processor named i5 (not the Intel Core i5) that will help device monitor the surroundings. The i5 could be a bit similar to the Mx motion co-processor in Apple devices. The i5 chip is way way more power efficient when compared to its predecessory i3 (down from 90mA power draw to just 6.mA).

Huawei has used Flip and FinFET transistors stacked in vertically and this has resulted in 40% increase in performance while power consumption went down by 60%. Huawei says that this gives 10 hours extra battery life in normal usage on a device with 3500mAh battery. This would also mean that device OEMs can adopt 2K and 4K displays without much of a loss in battery usage when compared to FullHD devices powered by Kirin 920/930. Huawei has also managed to get massive improvement in VoLTE voice quality.

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