TSMC has been producing its 5nm EUV process of daring production for 6 months to polish it before mass chip production begins in 2020, and new reports have it that Huawei was involved in these startling productions with a prototype of the next Kirin.
According to reports, the Kirin 1000 would be based on Cortex A77 cores, the new generation of ARM introduced in May and also implemented by Qualcomm in the Snapdragon 865. It also features a second-generation 5G modem and Huawei’s new Da Vinci (NPU) neural processing unit.
Thanks to the 5nm, the chip occupies a much smaller area and has a greatly reduced power consumption. It will be interesting to see if Huawei chooses a smaller chip or adds more hardware to the free space. There is still time for that, as Kirin 990 was introduced less than a month earlier, so we won’t have any more news until September next year.
Source: GSMArena