14 DAY TRIAL // Today, Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei has officially announced a new chipset aimed at mobile devices, in the form of Huawei Kirin 920, which sports no less than eight cores.
The new processor comes with the ARM big.LITTLE architecture inside, and with integrated multi-mode LTE Cat 6 radio, being the first SoC out there to include these 4G capabilities.
The chipset was made official with a quad-core Cortex-A15 processor that can be clocked between 1.7GHz and 2.0GHz, and a quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU, which supports clock speeds between 1.3GHz to 1.6GHz.
Additionally, the new Huawei Kirin 920, which was designed using the 28nm manufacturing process, comes with the powerful Mali-T628MP4 quad-core graphics.
As GSMArena notes, the same GPU was spotted in other devices before, such as the octa-core flavors of Samsung Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 3 handsets, but with six cores (MP6) instead of four.
Courtesy of the aforementioned integrated multi-mode LTE Cat 6 radio, the chipset will be able to deliver data speeds of up to 300Mbps on networks that include carrier aggregation.
For the time being, such networks are already available or are being tested on markets such as Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Germany, Engadget reports.
This is, maybe, the most appealing feature that the new chipset was announced with, since other mobile solutions are well behind it.
For example, the MT6595 chip from MediaTek will arrive on the market with LTE Cat 4, which translates into data speeds of only up to 150Mbps. Qualcomm, on the other hand, won’t release LTE Cat 6-enabled chips until next year.
According to Huawei, the new Kirin 920 also comes with a low-power I3 sensor co-processor, as well as with a Tensilica HIFI3 audio processor.
For the time being, Huawei has not provided specific info on when the new chipset will be added to consumer devices, but the company has said that it will not release the 64-bit chipset until the next year, it seems.
However, chances are that the company will make the new processor available inside its own handsets for the first time, maybe sooner than you might think.
Earlier this week, a certain Huawei smartphone codenamed Mulan made it online, with a 1080p touchscreen display, 3GB of RAM, and a 13MP camera capable of recording videos in 4K resolution, and it would not come as a surprise if that was the first handset to feature Kirin 920.
For the time being, however, this is nothing but speculation, so take it with a grain of salt. However, more info on the matter should emerge soon, so stay tuned.