Huawei Is Prepping Its New Kirin Flagship Chipset, With One Tipster’s Cryptic Post Saying That The New SoC Is ‘Accelerating’

As rumors pick up the pace around Huawei and its upcoming P70 series, so do the claims that the former Chinese giant is developing a flagship Kirin chipset. One tipster talks about this in a new post but fails to mention other important details. Regardless, there are a heap of earlier reports that talk about the same silicon, which will allow us to get to the bottom of this rumor.

Huawei was previously said to be working on the Kirin 9010 for the P70 series, but it could just be a modified version of the Kirin 9000S

The Kirin 9000S found in the Mate 60 family is the product of Huawei’s and SMIC’s collaboration and was mass produced on the 7nm process. Naturally, to maintain competitiveness with other brands, Huawei will eventually gravitate to the 5nm node for its future Kirin SoC, but the tipster Digital Chat Station Weibo has not highlighted any of this information on the micro-blogging social network. Instead, all he states is that this unnamed silicon is ‘accelerating,’ which might hint that Huawei is speeding up development work on its flagship Kirin chip.

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An earlier rumor claims that the upcoming P70 models will use Huawei’s Kirin 9010, and given that its name is slightly changed when compared to the Kirin 9000S, it may be an altered version of the latter with minor variations made to the CPU and GPU clock speeds. We have reported that SMIC will deploy commercial lines to begin mass production of 5nm wafers, but this will happen later this year, suggesting that the P70 lineup will sport a 7nm chipset like the Mate 60 last year. Perhaps the biggest chip upgrade will arrive when the Mate 70 series materializes in the fourth quarter, as the new range may tout Huawei’s first 5nm chipset.

It is rumored that this unnamed SoC will be as fast as Qualcomm’s previous-generation Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, making it several generations behind