Huawei‘s June 21 event is going to be a big one with at least three new smartphones and a new tablet confirmed to arrive but there is another big announcement on that day. A top Huawei executive has just confirmed that the Chinese giant will also unveil its second 7nm chipset on that day.
He Gang, the president of Huawei’s consumer mobile business unit took to Weibo to announce that Huawei will be the first mobile phone company with two 7nm SoC chips. He confirmed that the new SoC will be unveiled in Wuhan on June 21.
While he didn’t reveal the name of the processor, previous leaks have said it is the HiSilicon Kirin 810 processor. The Kirin 810 is the successor to the 12nm Kirin 710 and will appear first in the Nova 5. There isn’t much info about the SoC yet but it is said to be built on TSMC’s 7nm node. It has also been reported to feature Huawei’s own in-house NPU and that the difference in performance between it and the flagship Kirin 980 won’t be too big.
Huawei’s Kirin 810 chipset is set to take on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 700 series. The most powerful Snapdragon 700 series processor at the moment is the Snapdragon 730G and it is an 8nm chipset. The Kirin 810 already has the edge when it comes to power efficiency since it has a smaller node size.
Apart from the Nova 5, the Kirin 810 has also been reported to be the chipset inside the upcoming Honor 9X Pro.
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