In recent two years, Huawei has been mentioned. Many people may talk about Huawei's advancement and preemption in mobile phone sales and 5G communication, and become the pride of the Chinese people. However, å½æª digital is concerned about one point - Huawei is on the chip, moving forward!
In the past, when the mobile phone chip was strong, perhaps the first response would be Qualcomm and Samsung's Orion processor. However, Huawei also had a Kirin processor. This year, Xiaomi and even the pinecon processor, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Apple. The four Samsungs are the only companies in the world that have mobile phones and processors.
Huawei has long said that it will surpass Apple Samsung in 2018. From the outside world, many people will focus on mobile phone sales and profits, but in fact, the skills on the components are the most important pain points! In particular, the processor, the domestic mobile phone due to the supply of the chip, the lack of mass production, lack of function and the loss of the case of experience in Xiaomi, Meizu, and Huawei wants to complete beyond, must make a difference on the chip.
CCTV Finance has been exposed before, iPhone8 will use A11 processor, the skill is 10nm, and our Chinese heart will complete 5nm skills in 5 years. However, the current A10 processor is powerful, and has now defeated all the processors in the Android camp. Trust A11 will definitely be a step closer. CPU and GPU functions will have a leap forward, and power consumption will of course be further reduced. According to Apple's propaganda A10, the A9 is 40% better than the A9, and the graphics function is 50%. The A11 can be improved by at least 20%. Obviously, this is very embarrassing for Huawei.
Huawei's current Kirin 960, in terms of functionality should be different from Qualcomm 835, but the Huawei 970 that previously broke the news is the same 10nm skills, this is the standard for the Qualcomm 835, the CPU uses 8 center architecture, respectively The 4-core ARM Cortex-A73 and the 4-core ARM Cortex-A53, the original features make the industry a hit! Now that the P10 only uses the Kirin 960, we have to pin our expectations on the mate10, and the demand is ushered in a burst.
Of course, some people have mentioned that the function is now overdone, and there is no need to grab the high and low level on the processor. However, in the digital view, if the smartphone wants to change in shape in the future, it must be smaller and stronger. The computing power, but now the function is not enough. In addition, the two processors are the same as TSMC's foundry. It is also a question to give priority to the supplier. However, if Huawei can adhere to the momentum of the Kirin 960, perhaps it will win the strongest processor of Android this year and fight with the A11!
Why does the 5.5 billion transistor Kirin 970 run less than the 4.3 billion transistor Apple A11?
With so many transistors, the physical data is definitely stronger than that of Apple. The same is made. Why is there such a big gap? To understand this, let us first define a concept.
Apple A11 is a simple AP (application processor), while Kirin 970 is AP+BP, which is the application processor and baseband chip co-package, Apple A11 chip does not, so the theoretical structure and design requirements of Kirin 970 Both are higher than the Apple A11.
From the perspective of transistor density, Kirin 970 has nothing to say, showing a very high design capability, TSMC's 10nm process is also indispensable.
But unfortunately, compared to Apple's simple heap AP, Kirin 970, Qualcomm Xiaolong 835, etc., because of better integration to solve the processing and communication capabilities of mobile phones.
The baseband must be packaged on a single substrate at the same time, resulting in a considerable degree of press on the AP space, and BP- is also the baseband, there is no small power consumption and heat.
As a result, it is impossible to fully exert the fists like Apple, natural power consumption and energy efficiency are born, so there is no such horror that Apple has improved in running points.
On this point, Qualcomm has long said that if everyone pulls out, do not consider the baseband, simply fight AP capabilities, Qualcomm can also be designed quite exaggerated, saying that Apple can say no problem at all, I believe this is the same for Huawei. .
At the same time, it should be pointed out that GeekBench is only one of the reference tools because of the bias of the test project to Apple. Moreover, the running points and performance cannot be directly equated.
The Kirin 970's 5.5 billion transistors, and many transistors are used on the baseband chip, so it can't be such a rough and simple comparison.
In fact, the quality of the chip should also be combined with the system experience. For now, Huawei Mate 10/Pro with 6GB memory and Kirin 970 is not far behind the iPhone 8/X in terms of fluency.
On the contrary, the performance of A11 is too strong, resulting in 3GB memory becoming a bottleneck. Many background tasks will be killed and cause secondary loading, which is not as fast as Android multitasking.
In addition, the rumored A11X processor is coming, the process is upgraded to 7nm, and the first use of 8 core, 3 core + 5 small core heterogeneous design, is a top SoC.
If it is what we said before, in the performance of mobile device AP processor, only Apple can kill A11.
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