Huawei has already been tipped to name the next-generation flagship Kirin SoC as Kirin 1020. The chipset will take over fro the Kirin 990 presently holding sway. While the Mate 40 series which the SoC will feature onboard will hit the market in September, several leaks featuring the Kirin 1020 have emerged. The latest is that the chipset will receive massive supply in August ahead of the expected September announcement of the Mate 40 series.
This detail was shared by a blogger on Weibo who equally stayed that the 5nm chipset has been tested in several Chinese cities and that Huawei will hold a product launch in September where we expect the Mate 40 series to be the main product.
The Kirin 1020 chipset has been confirmed to utilise TSMC’s 5nm process. Mass production of the chip is said to commence in the first half of 2020 while shipment is expected to start in the third quarter of the year as the company starts supplying chips for the iPhone 12 series and Mate 40 series. Both series are expected to be the first mobile phones with 5nm chips.
Kirin 1020 is said to bring more than 50% improvement in performance than Kirin 990. The CPU architecture is upgraded from A76 to the unreleased ARM Cortex-A78, surpassing the Cortex-A77 feature on the Snapdragon 865. Kirin 1020 will also integrate 5G baseband.
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