If Kirin 920 just barely keeps up with the pace, then Kirin 950 can basically be said to be tied with Qualcomm and Samsung (the next generation products to be released soon), leaving MediaTek behind (helio x20, which was not released by MediaTek, still uses the 20nm process of Snapdragon 8 10, with only two A72 cores out of ten, and the memory specification is still LPDDR3, which is obviously different from the other three). However, Qualcomm and Samsung have started to play with their own architectures, and there is still a gap in this respect. By the end of the year, if Mate S 128G version can be listed together with Kirin 950, and after tying or surpassing Samsung in performance (just speculation), it may be qualified to set off the banner of "Android Machine Emperor" with the addition of force touch in a certain period of time.
The GPU specification is finally determined as Mali-T880 MP4 (quad-core), which should be better than Qualcomm 8 10 and Samsung Exynos 7420 on the whole. Compared with their next generation products, there is still a certain gap, but it will no longer be an obvious shortcoming. For 98% (? ) More people should be enough. (The slogan of Huawei Little Blackies will change from ancestral CPU to ancestral MP4);
Compared with the devices based on Mali-T760 GPU, Mali-T880 GPU can be expanded from one core to sixteen cores, with performance increased by 1.8 times and energy efficiency increased by 40%.
Compared with Mali-T760 (galaxy s6) GPU, the performance of Mali-T880 GPU is improved by 1.8 times and the energy efficiency is improved by 40%.
-from ARM official website Mali-T880-ARM.
Baseband:
1. Due to the lack of CDMA patent authorization (the following is further bad news), Intel has acquired through CDMA patent _IT News. I'm afraid it's hard to make up for the shortcomings of Netcom's baseband in a short time. It is estimated that the telecom Huawei mobile phone will still use the external baseband in the foreseeable future.
2. However, Kirin supports VoLTE 4G calls, and it will no longer be a problem when VoLTE popularizes CDMA (the gospel of telecom users: guess what HD means on the status bar of mobile phones? Bruce Lee is from Bruce Lee).
3. "At the media communication meeting, Huawei revealed that the cumulative shipment of Kirin chips has reached 50 million units, and more than 50% of the 4G+ mobile phones currently in use in China use Kirin chips. Starting from Kirin 920, all mobile phone products based on Kirin 920 and Kirin 930 support 4G+ "(the network speed is 300Mbps! Kirin chip share exposure) 4G+ is the so-called carrier aggregation, which has not been rolled out in China. Another 50% may be high-end chip phones from Qualcomm. The concept is well hyped, which is the foreshadowing of leading baseband technology. ...
Strategic issues:
Here is an introduction about Kirin 920:
"Its chip-fixing strategy is similar to that of horse racing in Tian Ji. It is a question for a university to ask when to make efforts. In fact, the most critical factor is not the architecture, but the process, which determines the chip scale and performance, and Huawei Hisilicon has been deeply troubled by this problem. K3V2 is stronger than quad-core A9 at the end of 40nm, so it is naturally inferior to those new products at 28nm in scale and frequency. Now, Huawei Kirin 920 chooses to exert its strength at the end of this era (28nm), surpassing other products at 20 13 and becoming the strongest A 15 processor. Of course, at this node, Qualcomm and Samsung have been exhausted by their previous efforts, and they are waiting for the next competition. It is natural for Huawei to make efforts at this time, so it can be said that Huawei's victory is Tian Ji. However, this victory can't last long. Other manufacturers' products with brand-new A50 architecture and 20nm new technology are already on the way. Kirin 920 will not be ahead for a long time, but will fall behind in architecture, scale and technology, and the tragedy of K3V2 will repeat itself. "
Obviously, Hayes changed his strategy this time, directly skipping the 20nm process (enduring the backwardness of the 28nm process for a longer time) and focusing on 16nm, making Kirin 950 reach the latest SOC level of Qualcomm and Samsung directly, instead of just catching up with the heel like Kirin 920.
Finally, K3V2 should be Hisilicon's first generation mobile processor. When P6 went public, K3V2 had barely supported it for almost two years, and that's how the name "Haisi" came from. Now, compared with that time, whether compared with Hess or Samsung in Qualcomm, the progress is still great. It really doesn't make much sense to cling to K3V2.
-the dividing line of digression.
Huawei seems unwilling to let Hisilicon's SOC status be lower than Qualcomm's. Take the high-end route from the beginning, and need a certain amount of shipments to share the R&D cost. Therefore, Huawei has been incubating Haisi's SOC with its own mid-to high-end mobile phones. The P6 in my hand should be regarded as the hardest time to go public with K3V2 (K3V2 was not bad when it was first listed, but it was far behind P6 because the successor was not in place). Although there is still a big gap between HiSilicon and Qualcomm and Samsung, I agree with Huawei's courage and determination to take great risks to endorse HiSilicon SOC and climb the technological commanding heights with its flagship mobile phone. Only domestic SOC can constitute a sufficient condition for me to use Huawei in the United States for almost a long time. Ordinary consumers don't have to pay for this, but I only have the word "Hehe" for those China people who "fight" with the strength of Samsung and Qualcomm and sneer at Hayes (these people actually highlight the value of Huawei's choice).
It is said that the level of hairdressers in China is no worse than that in the United States. Why does one earn 20 RMB and the other 20 USD? Because I didn't grasp the commanding heights, commanding heights in all aspects.
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