Previously, it was confirmed that Huawei will launch 7 Kirin chips this year.
New rumors claim that Huawei has quietly developed a new Arm-based PC chip to compete with Apple's M1 processor. The latest news hints at a fierce battle between the two tech giants, Huawei and Apple.
Digital blogger @tech Recover recently said that Huawei has developed a new ARM chip that can rival Apple's M1 processor. However, the latest information is still rumor, and more information confirmation is needed to be strongly confirmed.
If that's true, Apple could soon come across a new rival that does well in the ARM chipset race. So far, Apple is competing with Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X Elite for market share of Arm laptops and desktop processors.
In fact, earlier, it was reported that Huawei has produced a new 5nm chip called Kirin 9006C for its Qingyun L540 notebook. Initially, details showed that the chipset could be the result of a collaboration between Huawei and domestic chipmaker SMIC.
Later, a teardown of Youtech ** showed that the Kirin 9006C was not developed by SMIC, but by TMSC. Most likely, Huawei may have a surplus stock for its devices.
The information further reveals that the chipset uses 5nm process technology and has an octa-core Arm CPU (four A77 and four A55) with a maximum clock frequency of 313ghz。The processor offers higher performance, higher power efficiency, and faster processing speeds.
The Kirin 9006c universal core has a maximum frequency of 313 GHz, which is only slightly lower than the clock frequency produced by TSMC and Apple using the original TSMC N5 process technology (Apple's M1 high-performance core has a maximum frequency of 3.)20 ghz)。At the same time, the peak clock rate of the Kirin 9006C looks similar to that of another chip, the Kirin 9000, which is produced by TSMC for Huawei.
In terms of wording alone, the tipster mentions "developed," which means that Huawei has managed to build the unnamed competitor, suggesting that it is ready to be carried on laptops and will compete with a slew of Mac computers.
At the same time, the previous digital blogger @fixed-focus digital said through Weibo:
A piece of information shared by netizens,There's no way to determine the authenticity for you,Because it may be an experimental film,If it's true,Probably look at the performance equivalent to the performance of Apple's M1 chip in previous years。
The information provided according to the chip architecture is as follows:
4 Taishan cores (SMT hyper-threading).At the same time, the blogger said that "the performance is equivalent to the performance of Apple's M1 chip in previous years".4 Tarzan mid-cores (SMT hyper-threading).
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Large core npux2
Micronucleus npux2
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However, as much as we want to be optimistic about this rumor, we must face certain realities. At this stage, SMIC is still facing yield problems, which is difficult to meet Huawei's demand for 7nm chips. The simple reason is that SMIC currently relies on older DUV equipment to mass-produce 7nm wafers, rather than cutting-edge EUV equipment provided by ASML.
Since Biden has even banned ASML from supplying DUV hardware to Chinese entities, SMIC will have to develop new products on the devices it currently has. In short, the news says that Huawei may be testing new chips with similar performance to Apple's M1, and we expect good news from Huawei in the coming months.
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