News & Reviews:   Kirin 980 specs

Huawei Malaysia recently held a briefing regarding the Kirin 980 chipset featuring dual NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit) and a 1.4Gbps LTE Cat 21 modem over a more energy efficient 7nm fabrication process. Set to appear first in the Huawei Mate 20 series in London on 16 October 2018, key highlights of the chipset includes 75% improvement in single core performance and a faster yet 178% more energy efficient Mali-G76 GPU for an overall energy efficiency increase of 58%.

Huawei officially launched their latest Kirin 980 chipset today at IFA 2018 as the world’s first 7nm chipset. Other world’s firsts include the first to feature a MALI-G76 graphics processing unit, CAT 21 5G Modem for up to 1.4Gbps downloads, a dual NPU (neural network processing unit), Cortex-A76 processors and more. The Huawei Mate 20 is set to be the first device to feature it due on 16 October 2018 in London.