Huawei today announced the Kirin 970, its flagship processor intended for high-end smartphones, and gave the chip a dose of thinking power, or what Huawei calls a Neural Processing Unit. The Kirin 970 is an octa-core chip with four ARM Cortex A73s clocked at 2.4 GHz for high-power tasks and four ARM Cortex A53s clocked at 1.8 GHz for low-power tasks. The application processor cores are matched to a 12-core ARM Mali-G72MP12 GPU, which handles graphics. The chip relies on Huawei's 10nm process, which boosts efficiency by a factor of 50 and performance by a factor of 25. Huawei claims the Kirin 970 include on-device artificial intelligence, or machine learning, that works with cloud-based AI to create what Huawei calls mobile AI capable of delivering an intelligent mobile experience that is individual to each user. It will work with on-board sensors to compute real-time, scenario specific, personalized data well enough to make predictions for the user. As for connectivity, the Kirin 970 supports Cat 18 LTE with 4x20 carrier aggregation at 128 QAM for potential downloads as quick as 1.2 Gbps. On the camera front, the Kirin 970 can tackle HDR10, 4K decoding at 60 frames per second and and 4K encoding at 30 frames per second. The image signal processor adds tools such as motion detection for enhanced autofocus behaviors and low light enhancement. The company is positioning the chip as an open platform for mobile developers and hopes others will make use of the artificial intelligence to innovate and create new features and experiences. Huawei did not say when the Kirin 970 will reach mobile devices.
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