Mass production of Kirin 970 chips begins in September

Yordan, 25 July 2017

Rumors about the new Kirin 970 chipset by Huawei’s subsidiary HiSilicon are gaining speed. Latest reports reveal TSMC is starting mass production of the 10 nm SoC in September and will provide the chips in time for the Mate 10, anticipated to launch in October.

The successor of the Kirin 960 will keep the Cortex A73 CPU architecture. An improvement is expected with the GPU, which is said to feature 12 cores. That way HiSilicon is aiming to put the 970 on par with the Exynos 8895 and the Snapdragon 835.

The Mate 10 is going to be the first phone with the new chip and also be the first Huawei device with edge-to-edge 18:9 Full Active screen. The LCD itself should measure 6” and offer 2160 x 1080 pixel resolution.

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Reader comments

Vegetaholic
30 Jul 2017
nE$

It is a joke not a chip, G-71 12MP while exynos has 20MP, this chip is already outdated, and gap will even widen with new chipset releases, Kirin series was all the time a joke talking gpu-wise

leledumbo
26 Jul 2017
KLT

"An improvement is expected with the GPU, which is said to feature 12 cores. That way HiSilicon is aiming to put the 970 on par with the Exynos 8895 and the Snapdragon 835." Exynos 8895 put 20 cores there, 12 won't cut it unless it's not the sam...

Jan
26 Jul 2017
iJx

The gpu in 960 is powerful enough for 1080p. Few problems can be noticed in 1440p but no many phones from Huawei/Honor have this resolution. I have Honor 8 with Kirin 950/Mali T880MP4 and it is like 1/3 performance of G71MP8 in Kirin 960 so I don't t...