Kirin 990, this is the processor with 5g that will come to the huawei mate 30

After a little more than a year of waiting, the new Huawei processor is already among us. The company's new Kirin follows the nominal termination of the previous processors, and is renamed Kirin 990. The main difference with respect to the Kirin 980 stems from the integration of 5G. Now the network connection module is integrated into the processor itself instead of making use of the Balong 5000 chip that models like the Mate 20X 5G integrate. It also undergoes a significant evolution in the NPU modules for Artificial Intelligence applied to the system, as well as in the optimization of resources thanks to the 7 nanometers in which it is manufactured.

Kirin 990: more power in a smaller size

These have been Huawei's words during the presentation of the Kirin 990. In addition to reducing the size of the processor and optimizing the 7-nanometer manufacturing process compared to the Kirin 980, the company gives a twist to the structure of the aforementioned processor by introducing three processing modules: a module with two Cortex-A76 cores at 2.86 GHz, another module with two Cortex-A76 cores at 2.34 GHz and finally a module with four Cortex-A55 cores at 1.99 GHz. The total number of transistors is close to 10.3 billion: the most efficient to date and the smallest on the market.

If we talk about graphics power, the Kirin 990 repeats with the implementation of the Mali-G76 MP16 GPU. The main difference with respect to the same GPU of the Kirin 980 is found in the number of cores, which now has no less than 16 compared to 10 of the aforementioned processor. Another novelty of the processor is based on the duplication of the NPU modules to improve the management of Artificial Intelligence applied to systems.

We now have four “Da Vinci” modules, each of them intended to solve real-time calculations with up to three times more fluency than its direct competition. The capabilities of the NPU units allow, among other things, to recognize multiple people in video in real time and change the background of the image without suffering any apparent protrusions.

As for the photographic possibilities, Huawei claims to be able to record video in 8K quality at 30 FPS. In addition, the processing of images and videos is improved through the different sensors that make up your devices. The noise reduction applied to the microphones when recording video and audio is also improved.

5G reaches all mobiles

The main novelty that the Kirin 990 introduces, or rather, the Kirin 990 5G, has to do with fifth-generation connectivity.

As it is integrated in the same processing module, all mobile phones that have this chip will be compatible with the latest generation 5G networks, which would confirm the integration of 5G in the Huawei Mate 30. If we use technical data, the Kirin 990 uses four antennas compatible with the 6 GHz band to obtain a download and upload speed of 2.3 and 1.26 Gbps respectively, resulting in a speed of almost 300 MB / s download and 160 MB / s. s going up.

Huawei phones that will incorporate the Kirin 990

Huawei itself has confirmed that the Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro will be the first phones to incorporate the Kirin 990. Little is known about the rest of the terminals, although everything indicates that the Huawei P40 and P40 will be the next phones to receive the new from Huawei.

For its part, Honor could implement the processor of the house in the Honor View 30 and the Honor 30 and 30 Pro.