Huawei’s Kirin 970 Processor Rumored to Use TSMC’s 10nm Process

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Huawei had announced its latest flagship processor Kirin 960 last month in China. It is the successor to Kirin 950/955 SoC and comes with decent upgrades. The recently launched Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro are powered by the new Kirin 960 SoC. As seen with its predecessor, the new Kirin 960 also scored low on benchmarks. With the annoucemnts of Snapdragon 835 and Helio X30 processors, we can expect the some serious power from the flagship smartphones from 2017. Even though the Kirin 960 SoC is pretty new to the market, it can’t compared with the upcoming processor from Qualcomm and MediaTek. Instead, we might see a completely new processor from the third largest smartphone maker.

If the rumors are to be believed, the Kirin 970 processor might use the TSMC’s 10nm processor for production. As of now, both TSMC and Samung had perfected their 10nm manufacturing process. While the Qualcomm is working with Samsung, MediaTek and Huawei will be using TSMC’s process. The Kirin 970 might use the similar octa-core acrhitecture as Kirin 960 with four Cortex A73 cores and another four Cortex A53 cores. While the Kirin 960 came with the most advances mobile GPU, Mali G71. We can expect much better perfomace with the 10nm Kirin 970 SoC than the 16nm Kirin 960 SoC. One more information known about the Kirin 970 is that it support Cat.12 LTE.

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