Huawei announces the 7nm Kirin 980 SoC, promising big boosts to performance and AI

At IFA, Huawei announced its new flagship system-on-chip, the Kirin 980. Following in the footsteps of its fantastic predecessor, the 980 is the first commerical 7nm SoC, meaning that Huawei beat Qualcomm to the punch. It uses a combination of modified Cortex-A76 and A55 cores, a new Mali-G76 GPU, and a dual Neural Processing Unit (NPU).

If you're a hardware nerd, the Kirin 980 will sound quite exciting. Huawei says that this 7nm TSMC process results in 20% more power and 40% more battery efficiency over 10nm processors (e.g.

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