During the IFA 2019 conference in Berlin, Huawei Consumer Business Executive Yu Chengdong that the company plans to release the flexible Mate X smartphone in October or November. Currently undergoing various tests of the upcoming device. In addition, it is now reported that Huawei Mate X will come in two versions.
At MWC, a variant based on the Kirin 980 chip was presented. Allegedly, it will enter the market, but along with it, a more advanced version with the Kirin 990 chip will be presented, which . The Kirin 990 5G single-chip system includes a 5G Balong 5000 modem and therefore supports 5G networks without the use of external chips. In addition, it also supports SA/NSA dual architecture and TDD/FDD frequencies.
In terms of CPU, Kirin 990 includes 4 powerful Cortex-A76 cores (two at 2,86GHz and two at 2,36GHz) and 4 power efficient Cortex-A55 at 1,95GHz. In addition, it comes with an ARM Mali G76 graphics accelerator. Its performance has increased by 6% and energy efficiency by 20% compared to the previous generation chip.
The Kirin 990 chip also houses a neuroprocessor module with powerful cores based on the Da Vinci architecture and an energy-efficient microkernel. The image processor has been upgraded to Kirin ISP 5.0, and there is support for LPDDR4X memory and UFS 2.1/3.0 flash memory. One way or another, but still Samsung, despite the delays, is ahead of Huawei with the launch of a commercial flexible smartphone on the market - our employee Viktor Zaikovsky with the corrected Galaxy Fold and shared his impressions.
Source: 3dnews.ru