The sudden appearance of the Kirin 9000 S surprised everyone, and the Huawei Mate60 Pro was also bought and studied separately.
In the end, it was concluded that the performance of the Kirin 9000 processor is close to 7 nm, which is comparable to the performance of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8885 nm processor, and it also has a satellite ** function, so the Huawei Mate60 Pro was immediately sold out as soon as it was launched.
Huawei's revenue in the last quarter of 2023 is about 250 billion yuan, mainly due to the Mate60 series regaining Huawei's top spot at the beginning of this year.
However, Huawei did not reveal more details, such as the Kirin 9000 S.
However, Huawei still seems to be a little uncontrollable, Xu Zhijun said that at present, Huawei's domestic chips have achieved 70%; Yu Chengdong said that Huawei will launch disruptive products this year.
Huawei's HiSilicon, on the other hand, released a promotional image, and when it comes to 2024, it will be the real Shengshixin. It all makes sense.
First of all, Huawei has completed a lot of independent research and development, including high-end chips such as the Kirin 9000, and more high-end Kirin processors.
It has been reported that at present, China's semiconductor manufacturing enterprises have been able to produce Japan's Duvia lithography machine, which can reduce the size of the chip to 7 nanometers, and in China, the entire 7 nanometer production process will be completed in a short time.
In addition, SMIC has also started research on the 5 nm process, and ASML has also provided EUV lithography equipment with 5 nm process such as 2000 I to Chinese companies.
Huawei's high-end chips will also be produced domestically.
Secondly, after the Kirin 9000 processor, Huawei has successively released the Honghu 900, Kirin 9000 SL, and Kirin 8000.
Huawei now only uses Qualcomm's Qualcomm processors on mid-range models, such as Huawei's nova12 vitality version, however, this time the mid-range models are likely to abandon Qualcomm's processors and use domestic chips instead.
Qualcomm has estimated that Huawei will be based on 40 million to 60 million units next year, and the new generation of Qualcomm processors may no longer be purchased.
SMIC has taken the production capacity of the factory to a new level, which can produce 100 million chips per month, which is enough to meet the needs of different types of chips.
The third reason is that many of Huawei's new technologies, such as the Kirin 9000, are based on Huawei, with improved processors, multiple processors, and more advanced packaging.
But Huawei's new technology is much more than that.
Huawei officially said that the next generation of HarmonyOS system will no longer provide any Android software, and the original program of HarmonyOS will also start running, and the Kirin processor developed by Huawei will also bring a better user experience.
Huawei's Lingxi command system has also been announced, which is the most important chip, with its own developed instructions, which can greatly improve its performance, such as ARM from V8 to V9, but the product cannot be sold to Huawei.
Coupled with Huawei's self-developed Taishan architecture, as well as the Ascend 910 that competes with the Nvidia A100, in terms of AI technology, Huang has to say that Huawei is the most powerful competitor.
Huawei's use of more powerful NUP (NUP) chips for Kirin will inevitably lead to further improvements in Kirin's performance, as Huawei pioneered the use of NPU, and then Qualcomm, Apple and other companies began to follow suit.
In short, Huawei will definitely launch a new Kirin processor, which will be applied to Huawei P70 and Huawei Mate70 series, let's look forward to it.