Huawei Unicorn 960 chip officially released, GPU performance soared 180%

Today, Huawei Kirin's autumn media communication meeting announced a new generation of self-developed chips: Kirin 960. Since Huawei began to make chips, Kirin chip users have exceeded one billion. Where is this chip?

Small CPU increase, GPU has a quantum leap

Kirin 960 is the first commercial Cortex-A73 and Mali G71MP8 GPUs. Compared with the previous generation, the CPU efficiency is improved by 15% (single core performance is improved by 10% and multicore performance is improved by 18%). At the same time, graphics processing performance soared by 180%, and GPU energy efficiency increased by 20%, which can support the smooth running of 3D large-scale games for a longer time.

Supports the new graphics standard Vulkan, releasing the real-world performance of multi-core GPUs. It can remove CPU constraints on GPU performance, improve multi-threaded performance, and render faster, enabling the performance of 8-core GPUs.

Judging from the GFXbench Manhattan and T-Rex offscreen performances demonstrated on-site, the GPU performance of the Hassell 960 has surpassed that of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, which is more than twice that of the Unicorn 950. A bit of a gap with the Apple A10 processor, the second highest performance processor.

Communication and Network

The Kirin 960 has a new self-developed full-mode Modem, supports four-carrier aggregation (4CC CA), peak download rate of up to 600Mbps, Internet access rate and network signals have been a certain increase; also supports 2G/3G/4G multi-band dual-card roaming You can achieve smooth communication in more parts of the world without having to replace your mobile phone.

Third-generation audio solutions


The third generation of self-developed intelligent audio solution Hi6403, built-in dedicated audio DSP, has a powerful signal processing capabilities. When picking up sound, it can significantly improve the call effect in a noisy environment.

Third generation dual camera technology


Hybrid Hybrid focusing technology is used to intelligently select the most suitable focusing mode according to the camera environment, focusing faster and more accurately. Bionic black and white dual camera, capture more light and shadow details, color recovery is more real, more detailed performance.


Upgraded PrimISP 2.0, built-in high-definition hardware depth map processor, performance has been significantly improved over the past; hardware super-resolution technology, enhanced optical zoom effect; also supports 4K hardware video stabilization.

Lifetime

Breakthrough in performance and power balance. The newly upgraded micro-intelligent core i6 keeps the mobile phone on an always on state, and the pedometer service has reduced power consumption by 40%. At the same time, it introduced three high-precision hardware fences, situational awareness, low-power GPS 3 innovations. In the AR game scenario, the battery life can be doubled.

Safety protection performance

In addition to hardware performance, Huawei focuses on the safety of Kirin 960:

For the first time, the concept of trusted connection was proposed to protect the connection between people and mobile phones, mobile phones and mobile phones. At the same time, it obtained dual safety certifications from the central bank and UnionPay. The official said it is the world’s first mobile phone chip that achieves financial security. This means that the phone equipped with the Unicorn 960 has the same security level as the UnionPay IC card/U shield.

In addition, Unicorn 960 also became the world's first mobile phone chip with built-in security engine (inSE). Compared with software security solutions and other discrete chip security solutions, the inSE solution has higher security.

For fraudulent calls and text messages, Unicorn 960 uses a base station processor-based anti-counterfeiting base station technology to identify base stations in the bottom layer of communications, and refuses to communicate with the pseudo base stations, cutting off fraudulent calls and spam messages from the source.


As described by Huawei officials, the Hass Unicorn 960 is a product that combines explosiveness (performance), endurance (endurance), vision (photographing), hearing (audio), communication (communication), and protection (security).