Kirin 1020 Rumoured to Bring Major Improvements Over Kirin 990

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As nosotros arroyo 2020, smartphone companies are gearing up to striking new highs with their smartphones in the new decade. Huawei, which should launch the Mate twoscore side by side twelvemonth, is expected to ability the phone with a new processor rumoured to be called the Kirin 1020 (although other reports claim information technology might be called the Kirin 1000).

Any the naming scheme might be, 1 affair is for certain, the chipset will bring performance and efficiency improvements over its predecessor, the Kirin 990. While we don't know exactly how big a gap that will be, a new leak from Slashleaks contributor Teme, who goes by the Twitter handle RODENT590 claims that the divergence will be fairly huge.

Kirin1020 v Kirin990 5G
Nearly 50% performance increase
five nm v 7nm EVU
ARM A77 five A76
5G simply.

Kirin 820 replace current 810 and include build in 5G modem first device will exist Nova seven or 10X#Huawei

— Teme (特米)😷 (@RODENT950) December 6, 2019

According to his tweet, the Kirin 1020 will be built on a 5nm EUV process, as compared to the 7nm procedure used for the Kirin 990. That in itself implies that the new chipset should be considerably faster than the 990, while too being more battery efficient. He also claims that the Kirin 1020 volition use the new Cortex-A77 cores (the aforementioned ones used in the MediaTek Dimensity 1000) as compared to Cortex-A76 on the Kirin 990, and overall will allow the Kirin 1020 to take a 50% performance improvement over the Kirin 990.

The leaker also claims that the chipset will only be available with a 5G modem. Apparently, the usual leak-rules apply here, and I would suggest that you accept this information with a pinch of salt until we become to hear something concrete from more than sources, or hopefully, from Huawei itself.

Still, that'southward a adequately big spring to brand from one generation of a smartphone chipset to some other, and if Huawei does pull this off with the Kirin 1020, it could take an extremely powerful chipset on its hands for its flagship phones in 2020. That'south very exciting, at to the lowest degree to me, but what do you think? Let us know in the comments.