Huawei Kirin 950 Chipset: Better Performance And Less Power Consumption For Future Devices

On Thursday in Beijing, China, Huawei gave details of the upcoming Kirin 950 chipset, which is rumored to be on the Nov. 26-teased Huawei Mate 8 and in other upcoming flagships.

More than half of 4G+ phones in China are running a Kirin chipset these days and Kirin 950 enhances performance with little power consumption, reported Android Central.

According to Kantar, Huawei is Europe's second largest brand for Android. It just launched Nexus 6P and Huawei Mate S. The Kirin 950 chipset joins Apple's A9 as firsts to use 16nm TSMC FinFET Plus for enhanced efficiency, said Endgadget. The chipset has an octa-core processor with much-improved performance.

The Huawei Kirin 950 16nm chipset comes with four low-power 1.8GHz Cortex A53 processor and four high-power ARM Cortex A72 processors at up to 2.53 GHz with a small "always-sensing" i5 coprocessor on board.

It has a Cat 6 LTE modem and graphics as well, powered by a Mail T880MP4 processor. According to Huawei, playing a big part in Kirin 950's appeal is the VoLTE and voice quality enhancement.

The press briefing had voice demos which showed stark contrasts in frequency, ranging from 50 Hz to 7 KHz, which is a hundred percent increase, said Huawei. It means, a better low- and high-frequency response for voice with 5 to 6 seconds latency down to 0.5 to 1.5 seconds. There was twice improvement in voice quality and an overall improvement for music.

Having flip transistor and FinFET in the Huawei Kirin 950 chipset means consuming less power without jeopardizing performance, as transistors are vertically-built, not horizontally. The Chinese firm said that is a 40 percent increase in performance with a reduced 60 percent power consumption. With a 3500mAh battery, that adds 10 hours of "normal" device use.

The i5 co-processor is for sensor hub, magnetometer, barometer, acceleration and gyroscope. This "always sensing" chip is better than the second-generation i3 four times, with a power usage reduction from 90 mA to 6.5 mA.

For graphics power, the Mail T880 Graphics Processing Unit is said to have 100 percent better performance over Kirin 930. That means blast gaming on the phone.