News & Reviews:   Kirin

Qualcomm has announced that Chinese tech giant HUAWEI is no longer using its mobile chips and that the latter is now utilising its in-house processors. This is after the US banned Qualcomm and Intel from exporting chips to the company.

Nowadays, many of Huawei's smartphones either have a Qualcomm or MediaTek chipset. There are several reasons for that, but Kirin chipsets aren't as commonly used. But Kirin is still around and could launch a new chipset with the Huawei nova 12 series soon.

If you're looking forward to the return of HUAWEI Kirin SoCs, you might get disappointed after seeing this news. Despite the rumours saying that the Chinese tech company will launch new Kirin chips next year, the latest information claims it won't happen.

For smartphones, prices have increased due to a shortage of components like chipsets. Huawei is no exception, especially since its stockpile of Kirin chipset continues to dwindle. As a result, it has to rely on other brands like Qualcomm for chipsets.

Based on a statement by huaweicentral.com, it seems that Huawei has started the development of a new 3nm Kirin processor which is expected to be available around the end of 2021. While not much is known in regards to which exact smartphone will come with the aforementioned chip, it does give us a better idea of what to expect from Huawei in the future.

Based on a statement by Digital Chat Station on weibo, it seems that a Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 benchmark hints that the chipset performs better than the HiSilicon Kirin 9000 chipset. However, in the GPU department, both chipsets perform about equal.

Now that Huawei has launched its Mate 40 series of smartphones, we'll be getting more acquainted with the Kirin 9000 chipset in the coming days. Already we're getting some benchmarks on the chipset and it's looking good.

Looking for a new job is pretty tough during these current circumstances, and you'd be crazy enough if you want to resign right now. But hey, if you happen to be a fresh IT graduate (or something similar), you could give Huawei HiSilicon a chance as the company have just recently announced a global recruitment program.

Huawei recently announced that they might be introducing a new Kirin 820 5G chipset, which will be unveiled during the online conference that’s happening at 9PM on 24 February 2020. Based on a statement by gizchina.com, it seems that the new chipset comes with 5G support and it is manufactured using TSMN’s 6nm process.

In a move to make more revenue, Huawei has been reported to be selling its chipsets to 3rd parties which include competitor smartphone companies. The first chip that may be sold to the open market is their HiSilicon Balong 711 chipset.