The upcoming Huawei P70 series will use a new chipset from HiSilicon tentatively named “Kirin 9010”, writes Smart Pikachu on Weibo. The chip hasn’t been officially announced yet, but it has been in the works for a long time.
The first time we heard the name Kirin 9010 was three years ago – another leakster revealed that it will be a 3nm chip. TSMC was the most likely foundry, but the trade restrictions on Huawei now make this unlikely.
Last week it was discovered that Huawei is shipping laptops with Kirin 9006C chips that were fabbed by TSMC, but that turned out to be an old stockpile….
