Huawei is expected to launch the Mate 70 series smartphones later this month, likely powered by the new Kirin 9100 chip. Although we don’t know much about this SoC, a Telegram user named @spektykles may have leaked some key information about it.
Notebookcheck recently discovered a Telegram post featuring a screenshot from the Device Info HW app, likely taken from an upcoming Mate 70 series device. This screenshot appears to reveal the official specifications of the Kirin 9100 chip.
Kirin 9100 still has ARM v8 cores
The chip is shown to have codenamed HiSilicon Baltimore and features an 8-core CPU setup. It includes a single high-performance Cortex-X1 core clocked at 2.67 GHz, likely for handling demanding tasks, along with three Cortex-A78 cores at 2.32 GHz for a balance of power and efficiency in daily use. Completing the CPU are four energy-efficient Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.02 GHz.
However, due to ongoing US sanctions against Huawei, the Kirin 9100 is restricted to cores based on the older Arm v8 architecture. In contrast, competing chips like MediaTek’s Dimensity 9400 utilize the latest Arm v9 cores.
The leak also suggests that the Kirin 9100 will rely on Huawei’s in-house Maleoon 910 GPU, likely carried over from the Kirin 9010. Although this GPU isn’t the most advanced, it should still deliver solid performance for everyday tasks and casual gaming.
Moreover, the report mentions that the production of the Kirin 9100 will reportedly utilize SMIC’s N+3 node, a 6nm process. Though this doesn’t match the previously rumored 5nm fabrication, it should offer slightly better efficiency than the 7nm process used for the Kirin 9000S in the Mate 60.
The performance of Kirin 9100 is expected to fall between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and 8+ Gen 1. While there are no specific benchmarks to confirm this, an earlier leak suggested an approximate AnTuTu score of around 1.1 million.
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