Huawei's mobile phone returned to the first place in the Chinese market, and the nova 12 equipped with Kirin chips sparked heated discussions
In the first week of 2024, Huawei's mobile phones once again became the leader of the Chinese market with a market share of nearly 20%.
Nowadays, the Mate 60 series has become scarce, and the Kirin chip equipped with the Huawei 12 makes up for this shortcoming.
Huawei's return to the Chinese market shows the recognition of domestic mobile phones and Chinese technology by domestic consumers.
Looking back on the development history of Kirin chips, it is exciting.
In October 2004, Huawei established HiSilicon, and under the leadership of He Tingbo, Ren Zhengfei proposed an annual fund of 24 billion yuan for HiSilicon's R&D work.
He Tingbo was surprised when he heard it and asked"How did you make up so much? "But Ren Zhengfei said very seriously"If you don't, I'll deduct your winnings! "
As a result, Huawei began the development of its own chips.
In 2009, Huawei released its first self-designed mobile phone chip, the K3V1, which was completed at 110 nm, while its competitors had already reached 55 nm.
Due to performance and process delays, the K3V1 is doomed to fail in the market.
Huawei realizes that the research and development of mobile phone chips cannot be completed overnight, and it takes time to precipitate and polish.
Four years later, Huawei released a mobile** chip called K3V2, which uses a 4-core chip with ARMA9 architecture, and its performance is similar to that of the Orion 4412. Huawei's D1, P2 and Mate1 series mobile phones all use this chip.
This is a huge step forward, albeit with thermal effects and GPU compatibility issues.
In December 2013, Huawei launched it for the first time"Kirin"The mobile phone chip Kirin 910 is manufactured using TSMC's 28nm process technology, using 16 GHz 4-core processor with Mali-450MP4 architecture GPU and built-in Balon 710 baseband. 450MP4 architecture, integrated Barang 710 baseband.
The Kirin 910 is the world's first quad-core SoC that runs well on Huawei's P6S and Mate2.
In June 2014, Huawei released the Kirin 920, which is manufactured using TSMC's 28 nm process technology and equipped with 17 GHz 4-core processor, Mali-T628MP4 graphics processor, built-in** chip, upgraded Baron 720 baseband, maximum ** speed up to 300 m.
The Honor 6 won the championship with this chip, marking the first time that the Kirin processor surpassed Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor.
The Kirin 920 marks the beginning of the maturity of Huawei's mobile ** chip and its entry into the world.
On September 6, 2019, Huawei released the world's first 5G SoC, the Kirin 990, an 8-core processor built on TSMC's 7 nm process technology, with a maximum frequency of 2At 86 GHz, performance is at an all-time high.
The graphics card uses a 16-core Mali-G76 processor with a frequency of 600 MHz, which greatly improves the performance of the graphics card.
The Kirin 990 is the world's first product to integrate a 5 g baseband on a mobile phone chip. The Kirin 990 integrated 5 G baseband chip can save 21-36% of power consumption"Ice unicorn"called.
Huawei, with its powerful Kirin chips, shipped 2With 4.8 billion mobile phones, it surpassed Apple to become the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in China.
In October 2020, Huawei released TSMC's latest Kirin 9000 mobile phone chip, which is manufactured using TSMC's 5nm process technology, with an 8-core processor and a maximum frequency of 313 ghz。
The GPU uses a 24-core Mali-G78 processor with dual-core + micro-core processor.
The phone surpasses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 in terms of overall performance, with the only drawback being that it cannot be delivered.
The reason is that TSMC will stop supplying Huawei on September 15, 2021 due to US restrictions, and mainland foundries do not have the ability to manufacture 5 nm chips.
In August 2023, Huawei released the Mate 60 Pro, equipped with the Kirin 9000, officially announcing the return of the king of Kirin.
The Kirin 9000 is still very different from the previous Kirin chips, the CPU uses the Tarzan architecture, while the GPU uses the Maleonn 910 architecture instead of the ARM architecture.
In terms of production, the Kirin 9000 is produced by mainland manufacturers, not TSMC and Samsung foundry. This is the real gap.
Thanks to the upgrade of chip manufacturing technology, the sales of Huawei Mate 60 and 12 series mobile phones have skyrocketed, recreating the grand occasion of "thousands of empty alleys", allowing Huawei to return to the first position of domestic mobile phones.
Huawei is a national product in the minds of the Chinese, and its performance in the domestic market is implied"Value"assumptions. Huawei sold a mobile phone, which led to the development of the entire domestic mobile phone industry chain.
A mobile phone is not only an operating system and chip, but also a screen, camera, battery, memory, microphone, antenna, etc., as well as design, manufacturing, assembly, etc., which is a very large industrial chain that requires a large number of manpower.
In terms of industrial chain management, Apple's best job is to bid for global leading companies such as TSMC and Foxconn, and give up a lot of profits, which shows its operating ability.
In addition, Apple requires companies in the chain to design and manufacture accessories according to their specific specifications, while others can only use existing accessories.
To make matters worse, if certain companies (like Ovation and Gore) are unhappy about this, Apple will kick them out of the group.
Samsung has a complete mobile phone industry chain, including operating system, system chip, screen, camera, memory, etc. There are even people who say that if there is one company in the world that can make mobile phones independently, it must be Samsung.
But Samsung doesn't have an Android system, no iOS system, no Redmond system, no Qualcomm, no Apple, no Huawei, and photography is not as powerful as Sony, so in the entire industry chain, it is not the most powerful, and the profit is far less than Apple.
Apple is an industrial chain, Samsung is a complete industrial chain, and Huawei is helping domestic parts manufacturers to establish a complete industrial chain.
Huawei's mobile phone screen is provided by BOE, and the Mate 20 Pro released by Huawei in October 2018 uses a flexible AMOLED screen developed by BOE, giving full play to Huawei's advantages in using BOE screens for technical updates.
The precision structural parts are provided by BYD and Lead Intelligence, the RF antenna is provided by Xinwei Communication, Weir Technology is responsible for CIS, Lens Technology is responsible for the glass housing, QUTI Technology is responsible for the camera module, and Sunny Optical Lens is responsible for the optical lens.
When the Mate 60 series was released, 90% of the components in Huawei's phones were made in China, including the core operating system, system chip, and screen components.
Huawei Mate 60 Pro** is 6499 yuan, of which more than 90% of the money is used in the domestic mobile phone industry chain, and enterprises in the industrial chain will increase investment in research and development, forming a virtual cycle.
A responsible boss will also increase benefits for workers, so that they have more money to spend, which can drive domestic consumption.
It is also a Xiaomi mobile phone of 4000 yuan, and the price of Qualcomm has exceeded 1000 yuan, and in terms of cost, it has stood at the top of Qualcomm, which is simply a huge profit.
In order to compete with us, Qualcomm has invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in technology research and development in order to survive.
The second aspect is the promotion and salary increase of employees. Because they are profitable and easy to make money, they are generous to their employees and good to their expatriate employees.
And now, the return of mobile phones such as the Mate 60 and Nova 12 equipped with Kirin chips has quickly occupied the market, and this highly localized product not only represents a mobile phone manufacturer, but also represents the entire domestic industrial chain.
The success of these products has not only benefited Huawei, but also many companies in the industry chain and countless workers.
If one day, we master the basic technology, with Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, and NVIDIA, the wages of workers will be greatly improved, and the national income will rise to a new height.
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