Huawei's Kirin 820 will use a 6nm process technology and is positioned in line with Kirin 810 which are both lower-end flagship processors with almost no cost restrictions, the Securities Times quoted sources familiar with the industry chain as saying.
The report said the Kirin 820 will support 5G networks and will begin mass production in the second quarter of 2020.
Previous reports said that Huawei's next-generation flagship processor is named Kirin 1020, and the next-generation lower-end flagship processor is named Kirin 820.
The Kirin 1020 will be used in the Huawei Mate40 series released in the second half of this year, and the Huawei P40 series released earlier this year will continue to use the Kirin 990 5G processor.
At the same time, Kirin 1020 will use a 5nm process, use A77 architecture, support 5G, and should be integrated with 5G baseband. But previously broke the news that Kirin 820 continues to use 7nm process and integrate 5G baseband.
This is also the first time we have seen the news that Kirin 820 uses a 6nm process technology. Huachuang Securities pointed out that the upgrading of the process technology means that the more transistors are contained in the unit space of the chip, the theoretically the same chip's computing power is stronger.
In addition, according to Frandroid, TSMC is currently preparing for 5nm, and Huawei is already considering using 5nm technology on its next-generation flagship chip, Kirin 1020. Thanks to the 5nm process, Kirin 1020 can accommodate 171.3 million transistors per square millimeter, and its performance is 50% higher than that of Kirin 990.
