Huawei Launches Kirin 980, the World’s First Commercial 7nm SoC
Summary
BERLIN--( BUSINESS WIRE )--In his IFA 2018 keynote titled “The Ultimate Power of Mobile AI”, Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Mr. Richard Yu introduced the Kirin 980, the system on a chip (SoC) that will bring about the next evolution of mobile AI.The cutting edge TSMC 7nm process technology enables Kirin 980 to pack 6.9 billion transistors within a 1cm 2 die size, 1.6 times of the previous generation.Fourteen R&D centers have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India and China.Huawei Consumer BG is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc.Huawei’s global network is built on almost 30 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.
