Huawei, the Chinese multinational tech giant, continues to show its chops in chip manufacturing in the now crowded and increasingly competitive field of technology.
In the realm of central processing units (CPUs) cores as well, the company seems to be are making progress which is representative of a landmark development toward broadening the span of worldwide computing capabilities.
Recent benchmark results reported by Tom’s Hardware suggest that Huawei's Taishan V120 was not particularly fast, not yet matching the performance of top x86 CPUs from a few years ago. The fact that the phones aren't yet beating exactly what AMD is analogous to a CPU core from, in 2020, but are keeping pace thought, shows just how far they have come.
The processor powering the Huawei Mate 40 Pro is really pushing the boundaries of performance and features a couple of really interesting upgrades. Foremost is the fact that this is the first device to feature the new Cortex A77 core from ARM but this isn’t actually the most interesting thing about the new Kirin 9000s System-on-Chip (SoC). The interesting part comes in the make up of this new SoC: there are four more Cortex A77s which together with the A510s are similar to the already potent Cortex A76 from the old Kirin SoC. The important internal design choice here is that these four additional A77s are much larger and more expensive design to manufacture and also to operate than the four Cortex A76s in the old Kirin SoC. Written by James Smythe
The chip being tested is referred to on the benchmark site as “Huawei Cloud OpenStack Nova” but it is believed to be Kunpeng 930 server CPU. Originally slated to be made on TSMC’s 5 nm process in 2021 has been revised due the US sanctions and delayed. But Taiwan’s Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., it is believed, decided not to go ahead with the manufacture due to pressure from the Trump administration, suggesting that Huawei will need to find its manufacturing home-grown. Despite such vast and stringent industry-meddling, Huawei is adapting fast: it recently launched its long-rumoured operating system, HarmonyOS, threatening TSMC’s Apple connection in the process and recently upgraded its P30 Pro smartphone camera while having no Google supporting apps aboard.
Short of popping up an Android knock-off, it is managing well without paying a penny in royalties to Google and all under the noses of the Houston White House, completely unaided by Uncle Sam. All of which underpins Huawei’s resilience to deliver state-of-the-art solutions come what may - at least in terms of hardware.
Huawei's new CPU will be a big deal for the company as it shows they have real skill set to compete in the hi-tech world it is a big step for the company. In fact Huawei have still not reached the top in regards to how far advanced there CPU technology development. However Huawei still have made the future one step closer as there development on there new CPU in a CPU technology per say has come just that step closer to being able to meet the needs of everyday person and big corporation's daily needs, weddings, cars etc, the easily marketable produce has placed them one step closer to the top of CPU technology.