As some of you may already know, Huawei announced the Pura 70 series today. Those are the company’s new flagship smartphones that have launched instead of the P series, which got rebranded. Having said that, Huawei also announced the Kirin 9010 SoC, which fuels two out of four of those phones.
The Kirin 9010 is now official, and it fuels Huawei’s new Pura 70 flagships
The Kirin 9010 fuels the Huawei Pura 70 Pro+ and Pura 70 Ultra. The Huawei Pura 70 and Pura 70 Pro are likely fueled by the Kirin 9000S. Now, the Kirin 9010 is an upgraded version of the Kirin 9000S, but it may not be what you think.
This processor comes with a 12-core CPU cluster, unlike the 8-core setup of the Kirin 9000S. Huawei went for the 2+6+4 configuration here. This chip also supports LPDDR5X RAM.
Now, what we don’t know at the moment is what process Huawei and SMIC used for this chip. If we had to guess, however, we’d say it’s the same 7nm process as for the Kirin 9000S. Huawei is kind of stuck in that regard, at the moment.
The Maleoon 910 GPU is included here, but it’s possible it has more cores than the one in the Kirin 9000S
The same Maleoon 910 GPU is included here, but it’s easily possible it comes with more GPU cores than the one in the Kirin 9000S. The Kirin 9010’s CPU cores are limited to 2,30GHz, while the Kirin 9000S was limited to 2.62GHz. The thing is, this one has more cores, as already mentioned, and it should be faster overall.
That is basically everything we know at the moment. If you were hoping for a 5nm chip, we’ll likely have to wait for the Huawei Mate 70 series. Huawei is strongly rumored to release a 5nm chip later this year, in collaboration with SMIC.
It remains to be seen if the same chip will fuel the Huawei Pura 70 series outside of China. We’re guessing that a global launch is coming, even though we still don’t know when exactly.