In June last year, Huawei had announced the Kirin 810 chipset. The 7nm chipset was designed to power upper-midrange and mid-tier Huawei and Honor phones. The Nova 5 and Nova 5 Pro were the first smartphones to feature the Kirin 810 chipset. Rumors have it that the HiSilicon has started working on the Kirin 820 chipset. Some of the key details of the upcoming SoC have surfaced.
It is speculated that the Kirin 820 could be built with Samsung’s 6nm manufacturing technology which can provide an additional density improvement of 18 percent. This will allow the Kirin 820 to deliver better performance than the same grade chipsets from Qualcomm and MediaTek.
The Kirin 820 chipset could be based on Cortex A77 architecture. There is no information available on the GPU and NPU of the chipset. With integrated 5G modem, the SoC will offer support for dual-mode 5G networks. It is being said that the mass production of the Kirin 820 will begin in the second quarter of this year. There is a possibility that the company may announce it by the end of June or early July this year. The Huawei Nova 7 and Honor 10X are rumored to be the first devices to be driven by the Kirin 820 chipset.
Huawei is yet to confirm on the existence of the Kirin 820. It is likely that the successor of the Kirin 810 may have a different name. Also, readers to advisable to digest the above lek with a grain of salt as there is no concrete evidence to prove its authenticity.
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Huawei Nova 6 SE Specifications
The Nova 6 SE is the latest Kirin 810 chipset powered phone from Huawei. Unveiled in December 2019, the Nova 6 SE comes with a 6.4-inch IPS LCD punch-hole display that produces full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2310 pixels. The SoC is coupled with 8 GB of RAM and it has a massive internal storage of 128 GB. There is a nanoSD card slot onboard for more storage.
There is a front camera of 16-megapixel on Nova 6 SE. On its rear is a quad camera setup that includes a 48-megapixel main lens, an 8-megapixe ultrawide sensor, a 2-megapixel macro lens and a 2-megapixel depth assist lens. The EMUI 10 based Android 10 OS runs on the device. The device is equipped with a side-mounted fingerprint reader. The 4,200 mAh battery of the phone supports 40W fast charging. The handset is priced at 2199 Yuan (~$316) in China.
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