Huawei has officially announced the launch date for the Kirin 990 processor. The company posted a new teaser on social media, stating that the new chipset would be launched on September 6th at IFA 2019 in Berlin.
The Kirin 990 is the successor to the Kirin 980 chipset and 990 will be produced on TSMC’s 7nm EUV process which will provide 20% greater transistor density and in turn increased power efficiency.
The new chipset would be used in the upcoming Mate X foldable smartphone and will support 4K 60fps recording. Even the Mate 30 series is expected to feature this new chipset.
As per the post, the Kirin 990 chipset will come with the Balong 5000 5G modem. This would mean that smartphones with the Kirin 990 processor would also support 5G. Apart from betting big on 5G, Huawei may also add support for a new feature on the chipset.
Recent reports have suggested that the Kirin 990 will support 4K 60 fps recording. Huawei has also claimed that the Balong 5000 5G modem is much faster than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X50 5G modem. We can expect an enhanced NPU based on Huawei’s Da Vinci architecture and ARM’s latest CPU and GPU components.
The upcoming Mate 30 series will most likely be launched in September as well. Recently, Huawei also stated that the Mate X foldable smartphone will be released in September or November. We will have to wait till IFA 2019 to find out all the feature of Kirin 990.